Quotes act (I) scene (iii)

Question 1

Laertes to ophelia; don’t mind hamlet, it’s just a phase of hot-blooded youth

Answer 1

For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour hold it a fashion and a toy in blood a violet in the youth of prime nature

Question 2

Laertes to ophelia; his intentions don’t matter that much—he’s a slave to his family obligations

Answer 2

his will is not his own, for he himself is subject to is birth

Question 3

Laertes to ophelia; keep your love under control, and don’t let yourself become a target of his lust

Answer 3

or your chaste treasure open To his unmastered importunity

Question 4

Ophelia to Laertes; don’t be like a bad priest who fails to practice what he preaches, showing me the steep and narrow way to heaven while you frolic on the primrose path of sin.

Answer 4

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads

Question 5

Polonius reveals his wisdom and delivers salient advice to his son

Answer 5

Neither a borrower nor a lender be… to thine own self be true

Question 6

Polonius forbids Ophelia from continuing her relationship with hamlet

Answer 6

I would not, in plain terms, from tis time forth, Have you so slander any moment’s leisure as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet