Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
Hamlet
“As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/To put an antic disposition on”
“The spirit I have seen/May be the devil”
“The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King”
“But I have that within which passeth show,/These but the trappings and suits of woe”
“O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain! […] one may smile, and smile, and be a villain”
“Thrown out his angle for my proper life”
Claudius
“Revenge should have no bounds”
“O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;/It hath the primal eldest curst upon’t,/A brother’s murder”
“‘Forgive me my foul murder’?”
“I am still possessed/Of those effects for which I did the murder:/My crown, mine own ambition and my Queen./May one be pardoned and retain th’offence?”
Gertrude
“Thou know’st ‘tis common: all that lives must die,/Passing through nature to eternity”
“O what a rash and bloody deed is this!”
“These words like daggers enter in mine ears./No more, sweet Hamlet”
“I hope thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife:/I thought thy bride-bed to have been decked, sweet maid,/And not have strewed thy grave”
“This is mere madness”
The Ghost
“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”
“Let not the royal bed of Denmark be/A couch for luxury and damnèd incest”
Polonius
“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”
“At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him./Be you and I behind an arras then.”
Horatio
“And we did think it writ down in our duty/To let you know of it”
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”
Laertes
“Let come what comes, only I’ll be revenged/Most thoroughly for my father”
“I am justly killed with mine own treachery”
Ophelia
“I shall the effect of this good lesson keep/As watchman to my heart”
“I shall obey, my lord”
