English Quotes For Hamlet

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Quotes for Revenge said by Hamlet:

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"with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge."

"from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records."

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Quotes for revenge said by Hamlet:

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"the plays the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."

"from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth."

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Quotes for revenge said by Hamlet when insulting himself.

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"am I a coward, who calls me a villain breaks my pate."

"a dull muddy-metteld rascal"

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quotes for revenge said by other characters like Laertes or the dead ghost.

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Laertes= "to cut his throat i'th church."

Old king Hamlet= "revenge his foul + most unnatural murder."

old king hamlet= "do not forget this visitation but to whet thy almost blunted purpose."

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Quotes for Hamlets antic-disposition:

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"shall think meet to put an antic-disposition on."

Polonius= "this is the very ecstasy of love."

"though this be madness yet there is method in't."

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Quotes for Hamlet acting in his antic disposition."

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"I am but mad north-north- west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."

"the body is with the king but the king is not with the body."

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Quotes showing madness for Ophelia:

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"Quoth she, before you tumbled me you promised me to wed."

"young men will do't if they came to't, by cock they are to blame."

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quotes for madness

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"Oh what a noble mind is o'erthrown."

"he took me by my wrist and held me hard."

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quotes for women:

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Hamlet= "frailty thy name is women."

Hamlet= "get thee to a nunnery."

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quotes for women:

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hamet says= "i have heard of your paintings, God has given you one face and you paint yourself another."

Hamlet says to ophelia = "I shall speak daggers to her but use none."

Polonius says to ophelia= "you speak like a green girl."

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quotes for women

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"tis brief my lord, as womans love."

"incestuous sheets

said by Getrude during the play within a play (irony.)"the lady doth protest too much"

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quotes for delay in hamlet

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Insults himself for inaction:

- "o what a rogue and peasant slave i am"

- "how all occasions do inform me."

- - "what's Hecuba to to him that he should weep for her?"

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quotes for delay in hamlet

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from his soliloquy:

- "i do not know why yet I live to say "this things to do."

from the praying scene where he is given the perfect opportunity to kill but refuses.

- "Now might I do it pat, now he is praying."

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quotes for delay in hamlet

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"conscience doth make cowards of us all."

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Quotes for corruption in hamlet

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"something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

said by Francisco a guard complaining:

"tis bitter cold tonight I am sick at heart."

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Quotes for corruption in hamlet

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Hamlet= "Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things gross and rank in nature."

Horatio warning (foreshadowing) Hamlet something bad is coming:

- "This bodes some strange eruption to our state."

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Quotes for corruption in Hamlet

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Hamlet suspects political corruption from Claudius after the ghosts visit :

- "foul deeds will rise to mens eyes."

Hamlet criticises Claudius' new rule since he drinks + parties too much, hinting he's staining Denmark's sensible reputation:

"they clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrases. Soil our addition."

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Quotes for corruption in Hamlet

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The ghost uses biblical imagery to expose Claudius' corruption= "sleeping in my orchard a serpent stung me.

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quotes for the ghost:

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Marcellus= "who's there?"

"the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape."

"and then it started like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons."

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quotes said by Hamlet

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"there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"

"the time is out of joint - o cursed spite that ever i was born to set it."

""o that is too solid flesh would melt."

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quotes said by claudius

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admitting his guilt "oh my offence is rank it smells to heaven."

"i am still possessed of those effects my crown, mine own ambition and my queen."

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quotes of hamlet being angry at claudius

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"damned smiling villian."

"no more like my father than I to Hercules - Hyperion to a saytr."

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quotes said by getrude

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"oh hamlet speak no more, my very soul - there i see such black and grained spots."

"oh hamlet, thou has cleft my heart in twaine."

"our oehastey marriage."

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quotes said by horatio

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"tush tush twill not appear."

"now cracks a noble heart. goodnight sweet prince."

"there are more things in heaven and earth Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

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quotes about death

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"Alas poor yorick, I knew him horatio. a fellow of infinite jest."

"is she to be buried in christian burial that willfully seeks her salvation"

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quotes about family relationship

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"you cannot call it love at your age. "

"in the rank sweat of an unseamed bed, stewed in corruption."

"i must be cruel only to be kind."

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quotes about grief

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"tis not alone in my inky coat."

"these but the trappings and suits of woe."

"why seems so particular with thee?"- "i know not seems."

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Ophelia being passive

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"I do not know my lord, what should I think."

"tis in my memory lock'd. And you yourself shall keep the key."

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Ophelia trying to stand up for herself (does not succeed)

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"But good my brother do not as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep + thorny way to heaven while puffed and wreckless."

"my lord he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion."