Who Says? Hamlet

Question 1

The lady protests too much, methinks.

Answer 1

gertrude

Question 2

To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you. We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming to offer you service.

Answer 2

rosencratz

Question 3

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest.

Answer 3

hamlet

Question 4

If it be now, ‘tis not to come: if it be not to come, it will be now: if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

Answer 4

hamlet

Question 5

The rest is silence.

Answer 5

hamlet

Question 6

Goodnight, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Answer 6

horatio

Question 7

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Answer 7

marcellus

Question 8

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

Answer 8

hamlet

Question 9

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Answer 9

polonius

Question 10

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

Answer 10

polonius

Question 11

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Answer 11

hamlet

Question 12

O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!

Answer 12

hamlet

Question 13

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Answer 13

polonius

Question 14

…though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.

Answer 14

hamlet

Question 15

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

Answer 15

polonius

Question 16

When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!

Answer 16

claudius

Question 17

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Answer 17

polonius

Question 18

The Play’s the Thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.

Answer 18

hamlet

Question 19

Words, words, words.

Answer 19

hamlet

Question 20

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be

Answer 20

ophelia

Question 21

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Answer 21

claudius

Question 22

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

Answer 22

hamlet

Question 23

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Answer 23

claudius

Question 24

I must be cruel only to be kind

Answer 24

hamlet

Question 25

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

Answer 25

hamlet

Question 26

God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Answer 26

hamlet

Question 27

To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there’s the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…

Answer 27

hamlet

Question 28

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Answer 28

claudius

Question 29

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Answer 29

hamlet

Question 30

Gertrude, do not drink.

Answer 30

claudius

Question 31

I am justly killed with mine own treachery.

Answer 31

Laertes

Question 32

No, no, the drink, the drink! O, my dear Hamlet!
The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.

Answer 32

gertrude

Question 33

Here, thou incestuous, ⟨murd’rous,⟩ damnèd Dane,
Drink off this potion. Is ⟨thy union⟩ here?

Answer 33

hamlet

Question 34

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.
Here’s yet some liquor left.

Answer 34

horatio

Question 35

And let me speak to ⟨th’⟩ yet unknowing world
How these things came about. So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and ⟨forced⟩ cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall’n on th’ inventors’ heads.

Answer 35

horatio

Question 36

For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royal

Answer 36

fortinbras

Question 37

That I have shot my arrow o’er the house
And hurt my brother

Answer 37

hamlet