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Quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet categorised by theme, including who the quote is from.

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Revenge
● “So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.” (ghost Act 1 Scene 5)
● “Revenge his most foul and unnatural murder.” (ghost Act 1 Scene 5)
● “with wings as swift/ As meditation or the thoughts of love,/ May sweep to my
revenge.” (hamlet Act 1 scene 5)
● “thy commandment all alone shall live/ Within the book and volume of my brain.”
(hamlet act 1 scene 5)
● “I was born to set it right.” (hamlet Act 1 scene 5)
● “Revenge should have no bounds.” (laertes act 4 scene 7)
● “And now I’ll do ‘t. And so he goes to heaven; And so I am revenged.” (hamlet act 3
scene 3)
● "Leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting
her." - Ghost
● "And now I could drink hot blood" - Hamlet
● "Let me be cruel, not unnatural: I will speak daggers to her but use none." - Hamlet
● "Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge" - Hamlet
● "Then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven, and that his soul may be as
damned and black as hell whereto it goes" - Hamlet



guilt/remorse
● "Sir in my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep." - Hamlet
● "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to
heaven go." - Claudius
● "'Forgive me my foul murder'? That cannot be, since I am still possessed of those
effects for which I did the murder." - Claudius
● "O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven" - Claudius
● "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." - Gertrude
● "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here,
but in a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his soul so to his own conceit" -
Hamlet



madness
● "Villain, villain, smiling damned villain" - Hamlet
● "Lord Hamlet with his doublet all unbraced, no hat upon his head, his stockings
fouled" - Ophelia
● "Your noble sun is mad" - Polonius
● "Madness in great ones must not unwatched go" - Claudius
● "It is a damned ghost that we have seen, and my imaginations are as foul as Vulcan's
stithy." - Hamlet
● "Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works" - Ghost

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William Shakespeare Hamlet
Publisher: Unknown ISBN: 9780742652859 Edition: Unknown

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