Flashcards in Hamlet Quotes Deck (24):
1
"Be wary..."
"Be wary then. Best safety lies in fear."
-Laertes
2
"When the..."
"When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows."
-Polonius
3
"The apparel..."
"The apparel oft proclaims the man."
-Polonius
4
"Give thy..."
"Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act."
-Polonius
5
"Give every..."
"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment."
-Polonius
6
"Neither a..."
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
-Polonius
7
"This above..."
"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
-Polonius
8
"It is..."
"It is common for the younger sort to lack discretion."
-Polonius
9
"Brevity is..."
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
-Polonius
10
"Nothing either..."
"Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
-Prince Hamlet
11
"What a..."
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god!"
-Prince Hamlet
12
"To be..."
"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."
-Prince Hamlet
13
"I must..."
"I must be cruel only to be kind."
-Prince Hamlet
14
"Rich gifts..."
"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
-Ophelia
15
"For some..."
"For some must watch while some must sleep, thus runs the world away."
-Prince Hamlet
16
"For use..."
"For use almost can change the stamp of nature."
-Prince Hamlet
17
"Thus the..."
"Thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought."
-Prince Hamlet
18
"There's a..."
"There's a design at work in all art. Surely you know that."
19
"When sorrows..."
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
-Claudius
20
"We know..."
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
-Ophelia
21
"A knavish..."
"A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear."
-Prince Hamlet
22
"Rightly to..."
"Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument, but greatly to find quarrel in a straw when honor's at the stake."
-Prince Hamlet
23
"Cat will..."
"Cat will mew, and dog will have his day."
-Prince Hamlet
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