Hamlet Quotations – Who said what to whom

Hamlet to himself “To be or not to be – that is the question”
Polonius to Laertes “This above all, – to thine own self be true”
Marcellus to Horatio “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
Ghost to Hamlet “Revenge his soul and most unnatural murder”
Gertrude to Hamlet “The lady doth protes too much, methinks”
Hamlet to Horatio “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio”
Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so”
Polonius to Claudius and Gertrude “I will be brief. Your noble son is mad”
Gertrude to Polonius “More matter with less art.”
Hamlet to Polonius “You are a fishmonger”
Hamlet to himself “What a piece of work is man”
Hamlet to Ophelia “Get thee to a nunnery! Go!”
Ophelia to Hamlet “…the glass of fashion, and the mold of form…”
Hamlet to Horatio “No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning”
Polonius to Hamlet “I did enact Julius Caesar”
Hamlet to Guildenstern “‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?”
Claudius to himself “O, my offense is rank, it smells to heave; it hath the primal eldest curse upon’t”
Hamlet to Gertrude “I must be cruel only to be kind”
Hamlet to himself “O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!”
Ophelia to Claudius “Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.”
Claudius to Laertes “I could not but by her…the great love the general gender bear him”
Gravedigger to other “What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?”
Hamlet to Laertes “Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum”
Hamlet to Gertrude “The cat will mew and the dog will have its day”
Horatio to Hamlet “If your mind dislike anything, obey it”
Hamlet to Claudius “Follow my mother”
Fortinbras to Horatio “For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune”
Hamlet to himself “Frailty, thy name is woman”
Claudius to Laertes “There’s such divinity doth hedge a king”
Gertrude to Ophelia “Sweets to the sweet, farewell”
Horatio to Hamlet “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”
September 3, 2019