HAMLET QUOTES
ELSINORE CASTLE/DENMARK
‘A gun platform on the battlements of Elsinore Castle’ (staging) 1:1
‘ ‘tis bitter cold’ (Francisco) 1:1
‘the king that’s dead’ (Barnardo) 1:1
‘This bodes some strange eruption to our state.’ (Horatio) 1:1
‘daily cast of brazen cannon’ (Marcellus) 1:1
‘post-haste and romage in the land’ (Horatio) 1:1
‘We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold.’ (Hamlet) 1:4
‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.’ (Marcellus) 1:4
‘A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark… Rankly abused’ (Ghost) 1:5
‘Let not the royal bed of Denmark be/A couch for luxury and damnèd incest.’ (Ghost) 1:5
‘it might please you to give quiet pass/Through your dominions for this enterprise’
(Voltemand) 2:2
‘Denmark’s a prison.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘confines, wards, and dungeons; Denmark being one o’th’worst.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘The cess of majesty/Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw/What’s near with it’
(Rosencrantz) 3:3
‘Each small annexment… Attends the boisterous ruin’ (Rosencrantz) 3:3
‘the people muddied,/Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers’ (Claudius)
4:5
‘I have some rights of memory in this kingdom’ (Fortinbras) 5:2
HAMLET
‘upon my life/This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.’ (Horatio) 1:1
,‘(Aside) A little more than kin, and less than kind.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘I shall… obey you madam.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘O that this too too solid flesh would melt’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘a month’ – repeated in soliloquy (Hamlet) 1:2
‘frailty, thy name is woman –´ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘incestuous sheets’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘The funeral baked meats/Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘his will is not his own’ (Laertes) 1:3
‘some vicious mole of nature… too much o’erleavens/The form of plausive manners –´
(Hamlet) 1:4
‘Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned’ (Hamlet) 1:4
‘I do not set my life at a pin’s fee’ (Hamlet) 1:4
‘My fate cries out’ (Hamlet) 1:4
‘O most pernicious woman!’ (Hamlet) 1:5
‘O villain, villain, smiling damnèd villain!’ (Hamlet) 1:5
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.’ (Hamlet) 1:5
‘To be honest… is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘Let her not walk I’th’sun.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘tedious old fools!’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘…Fortune?... she is a strumpet.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘I am most dreadfully attended.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
, ‘(Aside) …If you love me, hold not off.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘Use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping?’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,/That he should weep for her?’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘Am I a coward?’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘unpregnant of my cause’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘I am pigeon livered, and lack the gall/To make oppression bitter’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘To be or not to be, that is the question –‘ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘The undiscovered country… No traveller returns’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘conscience makes cowards of us all’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘Soft you now,/The fair Ophelia. – Nymph’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘Get thee to a nunnery’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘thou shall not escape calumny.’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.’ (Hamlet)
3:1
‘Those that are married… all but one shall live’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘the candied tongue lick absurd pomp’ (Hamlet) 3:2
‘man/That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him/… in my heart of heart,/As I do thee’
(Hamlet) 3:2
‘here’s metal more attractive.’ (Hamlet) 3:2
ELSINORE CASTLE/DENMARK
‘A gun platform on the battlements of Elsinore Castle’ (staging) 1:1
‘ ‘tis bitter cold’ (Francisco) 1:1
‘the king that’s dead’ (Barnardo) 1:1
‘This bodes some strange eruption to our state.’ (Horatio) 1:1
‘daily cast of brazen cannon’ (Marcellus) 1:1
‘post-haste and romage in the land’ (Horatio) 1:1
‘We’ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘The air bites shrewdly, it is very cold.’ (Hamlet) 1:4
‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.’ (Marcellus) 1:4
‘A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark… Rankly abused’ (Ghost) 1:5
‘Let not the royal bed of Denmark be/A couch for luxury and damnèd incest.’ (Ghost) 1:5
‘it might please you to give quiet pass/Through your dominions for this enterprise’
(Voltemand) 2:2
‘Denmark’s a prison.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘confines, wards, and dungeons; Denmark being one o’th’worst.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘The cess of majesty/Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw/What’s near with it’
(Rosencrantz) 3:3
‘Each small annexment… Attends the boisterous ruin’ (Rosencrantz) 3:3
‘the people muddied,/Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers’ (Claudius)
4:5
‘I have some rights of memory in this kingdom’ (Fortinbras) 5:2
HAMLET
‘upon my life/This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.’ (Horatio) 1:1
,‘(Aside) A little more than kin, and less than kind.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘I shall… obey you madam.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘O that this too too solid flesh would melt’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘a month’ – repeated in soliloquy (Hamlet) 1:2
‘frailty, thy name is woman –´ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘incestuous sheets’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘The funeral baked meats/Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.’ (Hamlet) 1:2
‘his will is not his own’ (Laertes) 1:3
‘some vicious mole of nature… too much o’erleavens/The form of plausive manners –´
(Hamlet) 1:4
‘Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned’ (Hamlet) 1:4
‘I do not set my life at a pin’s fee’ (Hamlet) 1:4
‘My fate cries out’ (Hamlet) 1:4
‘O most pernicious woman!’ (Hamlet) 1:5
‘O villain, villain, smiling damnèd villain!’ (Hamlet) 1:5
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.’ (Hamlet) 1:5
‘To be honest… is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘Let her not walk I’th’sun.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘tedious old fools!’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘…Fortune?... she is a strumpet.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘I am most dreadfully attended.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
, ‘(Aside) …If you love me, hold not off.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘Use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping?’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,/That he should weep for her?’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘Am I a coward?’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘unpregnant of my cause’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘I am pigeon livered, and lack the gall/To make oppression bitter’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘The play’s the thing/Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.’ (Hamlet) 2:2
‘To be or not to be, that is the question –‘ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘The undiscovered country… No traveller returns’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘conscience makes cowards of us all’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘Soft you now,/The fair Ophelia. – Nymph’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘Get thee to a nunnery’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘thou shall not escape calumny.’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.’ (Hamlet)
3:1
‘Those that are married… all but one shall live’ (Hamlet) 3:1
‘the candied tongue lick absurd pomp’ (Hamlet) 3:2
‘man/That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him/… in my heart of heart,/As I do thee’
(Hamlet) 3:2
‘here’s metal more attractive.’ (Hamlet) 3:2
