Hamlet
HAMLET ACT 1 QUOTES EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar" - ANS ✓Polonius to Laertes
"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment." - ANS ✓Polonius to
Laertes
"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man." - ANS ✓Polonius to Laertes
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend." - ANS ✓Polonius to Laertes
"This above all — to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man" - ANS ✓Polonius to Laertes
"But to my mind, — though I am native here
And to the manner born, — it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance." - ANS ✓Hamlet to Horatio
before ghost
1
Hamlet Act
HAMLET ACT 1 QUOTES EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar" - ANS ✓Polonius to Laertes
"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment." - ANS ✓Polonius to
Laertes
"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man." - ANS ✓Polonius to Laertes
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend." - ANS ✓Polonius to Laertes
"This above all — to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man" - ANS ✓Polonius to Laertes
"But to my mind, — though I am native here
And to the manner born, — it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance." - ANS ✓Hamlet to Horatio
before ghost
1
Hamlet Act
