| Hamlet to himself | A little more than kin and less than kind. |
| Hamlet to Claudius | I am too much in the sun |
| Hamlet to himself | O, that this too, too sullied flesh should melt |
| Hamlet to himself | … frailty, thy name is woman |
| Hamlet to Horatio | In my mind’s eye… |
| Hamlet to himself | …Foul deeds will rise,/ Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes |
| Polonius to Laertes | And these few precepts in they memory/ Look thou character. give thy thoughts no tongue,/ Nor any unproportioned thought his act./ Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar/ (be a borrower nor lender be speech)….Farewell. My blessing season this in thee. |
| Marcellus to Horatio | Something is rotten in the state of Denmark |
| Ghost to Hamlet | Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. |
| Ghost to Hamlet | The serpent that did sting thy father’s life/ Now wears his crown |
| Ghost to Hamlet | Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive/ Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven… |
| Hamlet to Horatio (Marcellus and Ghost is present as well) | There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. |
| Hamlet to Horatio (Marcellus and Ghost is present as well) | As i perchance hearafter shall think meet/ To put an antic disposition on. |
| Hamlet to Horatio and Marcellus (Ghost is present as well) | The time is out of joint. O cursed spite/ That ever i was born to set it right! |
| Polonius to Claudius and Gertrude | … brevity is the soul of wit |
| Gertrude to Polonius (Claudius is present as well) | More matter with less art. |
| Polonius to himself(hamlet is present as well) | Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t. |
| Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | What a piece of work is a man… quintessence of dust? |
| Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly,/ i know a hawk from a handsaw |
| Hamlet to Polonius | Use everyman after his deser and who shall ‘scape whipping?/ Use them after your own honor and dignity. The less they/ deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. |
| Hamlet to himself | O, what a rogue and peasant slave am i! |
| Hamlet to himself | what’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,/ That he should weep for her? |
| Hamlet to himself | The play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King. |
| Hamlet to himself (Ophelia, Polonius and Claudius are present however) | To be or not to be…/…lose the name of action. |
| Hamlet to Ophelia (Polonius and Claudius are present as well) | Get thee to a nunnery |
| Claudius to Polonius (Ophelia is present but does not hear) | It shall be so./ Madness in great ones must no unwatched go. |
| Gertrude to Hamlet on the play | The lady doth protests too much, me thinks. |
| Hamlet to Guildenstern (Rosencrantz present as well) | Call me what instrument you will, though you can/ fret me, you cannot play upon me. |
| Polonius to himself | Now i could drink hot blood |
| Claudius to himself | O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;/ It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t. |
| Claudius to himself | But ’tis not so above:/ There is no shuffling; |
| Claudius to himself | My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;/ Words without thoughts never to heaven go. |
| Polonius to Gertrude | I’ll silence me even here |
| Hamlet to Gertrude | Look here upon this picture and on this,/ The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. |
| Gertrude to Hamlet | This is the very coinage of your brain |
| Hamlet to Gertrude | I must be cruel only to be kind./ This bad begins, and worse remains behind. |
| Hamlet to Gertrude | This counselor/ Is now most still, mosecret, and most grave,/ Who was in life a foolish, prating knave |
| Gertrude to Claudius | And in this brainish apprehension kills/ The unseen good old man |
| Hamlet to Claudius (Rosencrantz present as well) | Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress/ through the guts of a beggar |
| Hamlet to himself | How all occasions do inform against me/ and spur my dull revenge. |
| Hamlet to himself | O, from this time forth/ My thought be bloody or be nothing worth, |
| Claudius to Gertrude | When sorrows come, they come not single spies,/ but in battalions |
| Ophelia to Laertes (Claudius and Gertrude present as well) | There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance,/ Pray you, love, remember. |
| Laertes to Claudius | To cut his throat i’ th’ church |
| Laertes to dead Ophelia(Claudius and Gertrude are present) | Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,/ and therefore i forbid my tears. |
| Hamlet to Horatio (Gravedigger present as well) | Alas, poor Yorick! i knew him, Horatio–a fellow/ of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. |
| Hamlet to Horatio (Grave digger present as well) | Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,/ Might stop a hole to keep the wind away./ O, that the earth which kept the world in awe/ Should patch a wall t’ expel the winter’s flaw. |
| Gertrude to Dead Ophelia (funeral party present as well) | Sweets to the sweet, |
| Hamlet to Gertrude (and the rest of the funeral party) | Let Hercules himself do what he may,/ The cat will mew, and the dog will have his day. |
| Hamlet to Horatio | There’s a divinty that shaper our ends,/ Rough-hew them how we will. |
| Hamlet to Horatio | the readiness is all. |
| Hamlet to Laertes (Claudius present) | That i have shot my arrow o’er my house/ And hurt my brother |
| Hamlet to Horatio | Report me and my cause airght/ To the unsatisfied. |
| Horatio to Dead Hamlet | Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,/ And flights of angels sing thee to they rest. |
Hamlet Quotes
July 8, 2019