Quotation Translations Flashcards
What… doth make the night joint-labourer with the day?
Why are people working 24/7?
A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.
The ghost situation is bothersome
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature that we with wisest sorrow… hath taken to wife.
Claudius justifies his hasty marriage to Gertrude
A little more that kin and less than kind.
Hamlet’s opening aside reveals his aversion to his uncle step-father
‘Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed.
Poor leadership ruins a country
Funeral… meats did coldly furnish… the marriage tables.
Horatio understands Hamlet’s sarcasm
His will is not his own as he… is subject to his birth.
Laertes says a prince may not choose his wife
Do not… show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst… himself… recks not his own rede.
Ophelia challenges her brother not to be a hypocrite
Give every man thine ear but few thy voice.
Although he is often a fool, this is sound advice to his son
Ay, springes to catch woodcocks… when the blood burns… the prodigal soul gives the tongue vows.
Foolish girls are seduced by young men’s passionate lies.
They clepe us drunkards.
Danes are reputed to drink too much
The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.
A ghost says his brother killed him
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
Reynaldo is to tell lies and spy on Laertes
More matter with less art.
Gertrude tells Polonius to get to the point
O Jephthah… what a treasure hadst thou!
Polonius foolishly ignores Hamlet’s warning
