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Hamlet Quotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage" * | -King Claudius . Act 1 Scene 2 |
| "A little more than kin, and less than kind" | - Hamlet. Act 1 Scene 2 |
| "Frailty, thy name is woman" * | - Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2 |
| "I shall not look upon his like again" * | - Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2 |
| "His will is not his own; for he is subject to his birth" * | - Polonius Act 1 Scene 3 |
| "Why thy canonised bones, hearsed in death, have burst their cements" | - Hamlet Act 1 Scene 4 |
| "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" * | - Marcellus Act 1 Scene 4 |
| "Revenge his most foul and unnatural murder" * | - Ghost Act 1 Scene 5 |
| "The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown" * | - Ghost Act 1 Scene 5 |
| "Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched" | - Ghost Act 1 Scene 5 |
| "That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain" * | - Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5 |
| "There are more things one heaven and earth, Horatio, that are dreamt of in your philosophy" * | - Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5 |
| "(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on)" * | - Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5 |
| " By indirections find directions out" * | - Polonius Act 2 Scene 1 |
| "Come we go to the king" * | - Polonius Act 2 Scene 1 |
| "Sith nor the exterior nor inward man resembles that it was" | - King Claudius Act 2 Scene 2 |
| "Visit my too much changed son" | - Queen Gertrude Act 2 Scene 2 |
| "Denmark's a prison" | - Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 |
| "What is this quintessence of dust?" * | - Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 |
| "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw" | - Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 |
| "But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall to make oppression bitter | - Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 |
| " The plays the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" * | - Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 |
| "How smart a speech that doth lash give my conscience" * | - King Claudius Act 3 Scene 1 |
| "To be or not to be - that is the question; whether it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by opposing, end them." * | - Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 |
| "God hath given the a face, and you make yourselves another" * | - Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 |
| " Madness in great ones must not unwatched go" * | - King Claudius Act 3 Scene 1 |
| "A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards" * | - Hamlet Act 3 Scene 2 |
| "A second time i kill my husband dead, when second husband kisses me in bed" * | - Player Queen Act 3 Scene 2 |
| "I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound. Didst perceive?" | - Hamlet Act 3 Scene 2 |
| "Do you think i am easier to be played upon than a pipe?" | -Hamlet Act 3 Scene 2 |
| "Let me be cruel not unnatural" * | - Hamlet Act 3 Scene 2 |
| "For we will fetters put upon this fear, which now go too free footed" * | - King Claudius Act 3 Scene 3 |
| "My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardoned and retain the offence?" | - King Claudius Act 3 Scene 3 |
| "Words without thoughts never to heaven go" | - King Claudius Act 3 Scene 3 |
| "Mother, you have my father much offended" * | - Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4 |
| "Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!" * | - Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4 |
| "O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain" | - Queen Gertrude Act 3 Scene 4 |
| "My two schoolfellows, whom i will trust as i will adders fanged" | - Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4 |
| "Mad, as the sea and when both contend which is the mightier" * | - Queen Gertrude Act 4 Scene 1 |
| "That soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities." * | - Hamlet Act 4 Scene 2 |
| "Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to feed us, and we fat ourselves for maggots." | - Hamlet Act 4 Scene 3 |
| "Her clothes spread wide And mermaid-like they awhile they bore her up, Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds As one incapable of her own distress" | - Queen Gertrude Act 4 Scene 7 |
| "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy" | - Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1 |
| "I loved Ophelia—forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum." | - Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1 |
| "Thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dame" | - Hamlet Act 5 Scene 2 |
| "She swoons to see them bleed." | - Claudius Act 5 Scene 2 |
| "But I do prophesy th' election lights On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice." | - Hamlet Act 5 Scene 2 |
| Now cracks a noble heart! Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! | - Horatio Act 5 Scene 2 |