| “Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness” | Horatio to Hamlet about the grave digger- he’s used to death and digging graves is easy for him |
| “Alas, poor Yorkick! I knew him, Horatio… to this favour she must come” | Hamlet to Horatio about Yorick saying he knew him, at the end of speech saying there’s no amount of makeup that can cover death |
| “Sweets to the sweet; farewell!” | Queen to dead Ophelia, she’s tossing the flowers into her grave saying goodbye |
| “But it is no matter. Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and the dog will have his day” | Hamlet to Larates, he’s arguing with him over Ophelia’s grave and who loves her more. Everyone will have their time. |
| “…a mans life’s no more than to say ‘one'” | Hamlet to Horatio about how there’s only a split second between life and death, one moment you’re alive the next you’re not, it doesn’t take long to get revenge |
| “…to know a man well were to know himself” | Hamlet to Osric and Horatio saying to know another man well you first need to know yourself |
| “Since no man of aught he leave knows, what is’t to leave betimes?” | Hamlet to Horatio about how you can’t say “oh he died so early” because no man knows when he’s going to die |
| “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” | Hamlet to Horatio, he’s realizing he’s going to die one way or another, he knows he is going to die and he’s no longer afraid of death |
| “Had I but time” | Hamlet to everyone, it’s ironic because he had all the time in the world, so many people died because he didn’t act on killing the king |
| “The rest is silence” | Hamlet to Horatio, his last words before he dies it’s ironic because he talks so much |
| “Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” | Horatio to Hamlet as he’s dying, what a noble man he was and now he is dead, he hopes he goes to heaven |
| “Rosencrantz and Guildensern are dead” | Ambassador to Horatio and Fortinbras giving them the news that they were beheaded. |
Act V Hamlet quotes
August 11, 2019