| Good gentlemen, give him a further edge and drive his purpose into these delights. | King (Claudius)Rosencrantz and GuildensternEncourage the Play |
| And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish that your good beauties be the happy cause of Hamlet’s wildness | Queen (gertrude)OpheliaI hope Hamlet is madly in love with you |
| That with devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself | PoloniusOpheliaSometimes we use religion to hide our sins |
| The harlot’s cheek beautified with plast’ring art is not more ugly to the thing which helps it than is my deed to my most painted word. | King (Claudius)King (Claudius)I am no better than a prostitute using makeup to better myself |
| To be or not to be- that is the question: | HamletHamletTo live or to die |
| To die, to sleep- To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. | HamletHamletDeath could be a dream, but it could also be a nightmare |
| The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of? | HamletHamletNo one had died and come back to tell us what it is like |
| Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. | HamletHamletI am to cowardly to make a decision |
| Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered. | Hamlet Hamlet or OpheliaOphelia pray for me |
| Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. | HamletOpheliaBeautiful women are whores |
| Get thee to a nunnery. | HamletOpheliaYou are a slut |
| Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, farewell. Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. | HamletOpheliaI hope you never have kids and marry an idiot |
| God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. | HamletOpheliaWomen are two-faced |
| I say we will have no more marriage. Those that are married already, all but one, shall live. | HamletOpheliaI am going to kill somebody |
| I have in quick determination thus set it down: he shall with speed to England for the demand of our neglected tribute. | KingPoloniusI am shipping Hamlet to England |
| Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. | KingPoloniusMadness plus power equals trouble |
| If his occulted guilt do not itself unkennel in one speech, it is a damned ghost that we have seen, and my imaginations are as foul as Vulcan’s stithy. | HamletHoratioIf he doesn’t show guilt then I know the ghost was lying |
| In second husband let me be accurst. None wed the second but who killed the first. | PQ PKIf i renamed after you died, it would be like I killed you |
| A second time I kill my husband dead when second husband kisses me in bed. | PQPKKissing a second husband would be like killing my first husband |
| The lady doth protest too much, methinks. | Gertrude (Queen)HamletThe player queen makes to many promises |
| What frightened with false fire? | HamletClaudiusAre you scared of nothing? |
| ‘SBlood do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? | HamletGuildensternDo you think I am easier to be played than a flute |
| Let me be cruel, not unnatural. I will speak daggers to her, but use none. | HamletHamletI will hurt her with my words but not physically |
| O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; | Claudius (King)Claudius (King)What I’ve done is so bad, not even heaven knows its bad |
| Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. | Claudius (King)Claudius (King)I need to pray, but I can’t |
| May one be pardoned and retain th’ offense? | Claudius (king)Claudius (king)Can i be forgiven, but still be king |
| What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent? | Claudius (King)Claudius (king)What good is praying, if you don’t mean it |
| A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven. | HamletHamletIf I kill him while he is praying, he will go to heaven |
| Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent. | HamletHamletI will kill him when he is doing bad |
| This physic but not prolongs thy sickly days. | HamletHamletThis has only prolonged his life, not saved it |
| My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. | Claudius (King)Claudius (King)Prayer without meaning is useless |
| You are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife, and (would it were not so) you are my mother. | HamletQueen (Gertrude)I hate you mom |
| Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell. I took thee for thy better. | HamletPoloniusYou idiot, I didn’t know it was you |
| You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame, it’s humble and waits upon the judgement; and what judgement would step from this to this? | HamletQueen (Gertrude)You can’t tell me you were in love with him |
| Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, or but a sickly part of one true sense could not so mope. | HamletQueen (Gertrude)You senses are messed up |
| O shame, where is thy blush? | HamletQueen (Gertrude)Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? |
| This visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose. | Ghost (Old King Hamlet)HamletHey, don’t forget to kill Claudius |
| Lay not that flattering unction to your soul That not your trespass but my madness speaks. | HamletQueen (Gertrude)I promise you, I’m not crazy |
| O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. | Queen (Gertrude)HamletYou have broken my heart |
| I must be cruel only to be kind. | HamletQueen (Gertrude)Its for your own good (Tough Love) |
| Nor this by no means that I bid you do: Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed, Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, And let him for a pair of reechy kisses Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers, Make you to ravel all this matter out That I essentially am not in madness But mad in craft. | Hamlet Queen (Gertrude)Don’t let the king convince you I am crazy |
| Be thou assured, if words be made of breath And breath of life, I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me. | Queen (Gertrude)HamletI promise I won’t say anything |
| O, ’tis most sweet When in one line two crafts directly meet. | HamletQueen (Gertrude)Killing two birds with one stone |
| What character(s)….. says of Hamlet, “He does confess he feels himself distracted, but from what cause he will by no means speak.” | Rosencrantz |
| What character(s)….. promises, “In second husband let me be accurst! None wed the second but who killed the first” | Player Queen |
| What character(s)….. compared to the queen, is, “Metal more attractive.” | Ophelia |
| What character(s)….. is, “So sick of late, so far from cheer and from [his] former state.” | Hamlet |
| What character(s)….. “Cannot… command to any utterance of harmony. [He has] not the skill.” | Guildenstern |
| What character(s)….. tells Hamlet, “If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing, and ‘scape detecting, I will pay the theft.” | Horatio |
| What character(s)….. states that “Madness in great ones ust not unwatch’d go.” | King (Claudius) |
| What character(s)….. says, “O, speak to me no more! These words like daggers enter mine ears.” | Gertrude (Queen) |
| What character(s)….. is the first to cry “O, I am slain!” | Polonius |
| What character(s)….. does Gertrude ask, what have i done that thou dar’st wag thy tongue/In noise so rude against me?” | Hamlet |
Hamlet Act 3 Quote Review
September 5, 2019