Hamlet Quotes

Act 1, Scene 1

• Tis bitter cold (Francisco, line 6)
• I am sick at heart (Fransicso, line 7)
• Not a mouse stirring (Francisco, line 10)
• Thou art scholar, speak to it Horatio (Marcellus, line 42)
• This bodes some strange eruption to our state (Horatio, line 69)
• Whose sore task, does not divide the Sunday from the week (Marcellus, line 76)
• Our Saviour's birth (Marcellus, line 59)

Act 1, Scene 2

• Our sometime sister, now our queen (Claudius)
• With mirth in funeral and dirge in marriage (Claudius)
• My thoughts and wishes bend again towards France (Laertes)
• My cousin Hamlet (Claudius)
• A little more than kin and less than kind (Hamlet)
• I am too much i'th' sun (Hamlet)
• All lives must die, passing through nature to eternity (Gertrude)
• 'Tis unmanly grief (Claudius)
• Go not to Wittenberg (Gertrude)
• His canon 'gainst self-slaughter (Hamlet)
• How weary stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world (Hamlet)
• Two months gone! (Hamlet)
• Hyperion to a satyr (Hamlet)
• Frailty, thy name is woman (Hamlet)

Act 1, Scene 2

• A beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer (Hamlet)
• Oh most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets (Hamlet)
• The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables (Hamlet)
• A countenance more in sorror than in anger (Horatio)
• I doubt some foul play (Hamlet)
• Foul deeds will rise (Hamlet)

Act 1, Scene 3

• Perhaps he loves you now (Laertes)
• His will is not his own (Laertes)
• Your chaste treasure (Laertes)
• Recks not his own rede (Ophelia)
• Neither a borrower nor lender be (Polonius)
• To thine own self be true (Polonius)
• I shall obey, my Lord (Ophelia)

Act 1, Scene 4

• Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned (Horatio)
• Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell (Horatio)
• Be thy intents wicked or charitable (Horatio)
• I do not set my life at a pin's fee (Hamlet)
• Something's rotten in the state of Denmark (Marcellus)

Act 1, Scene 5

• So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear (Ghost)
• I am thy father's spirit (Ghost)
• Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder (Ghost)
• With wings as swift as meditation (Hamlet)
• The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown (Ghost)
• Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest (Ghost)
• Whilest memory holds a seat in this distracted globe (Hamlet)
• Thy commandment alone shall live (Hamlet)
• Smiling damned villain (Hamlet)/Remember me (Ghost)
• You hear this fellow in the cellarage (Hamlet)
• Hic et ubique (Hamlet)
• There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet)
• To put on an antic disposition (Hamlet)

Act 2, Scene 1

• Let him ply his music (Polonius)
• Lord Hamlet his doublet all unbraced (Ophelia)
• With a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell (Ophelia)
• This is the very ecstasy of love (Polonius)

Act 2, Scene 2

• Hamlet's transformation (Claudius)
• My too much changed son (Gertrude)
• Hamlet's lunacy (Polonius)
• Your son's distemper (Claudius)
• I doubt it is no other but the main: his father's death, and our o'er hasty marriage (Gertrude)
• Your noble son is mad (Polonius)
• You're a fishmonger (Hamlet)
• More matter with less art (Gertrude)
• Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star (Polonius)
• I'll loose my daughter to him (Polonius)
• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't (Polonius)
• You cannot sir take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal except my life (Hamlet)

Act 2, Scene 2

• Denmark's a prison (Hamlet)
• I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth (Hamlet)
• What a piece of work is man! (Hamlet)
• Man delights me not (Hamlet)
• Uncle-father (Hamlet)
• Aunt-mother (Hamlet)
• I am but mad north-north-west (Hamlet)
• Can you play The Murder of Gonzago (Hamlet)
• O what a rogue and pleasant slave am I (Hamlet)
• Am I a coward? (Hamlet)
• Oh, vengeance! (Hamlet)
• The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king (Hamlet)

Act 3, Scene 1

• Turbulant and dangerous lunacy (Claudius)
• Crafty madness (Guildenstern)
• I shall obey you (Gertrude)
• O heavy burden (Claudius)
• To be or not to be (Claudius)
• The undiscovered country from where no traveller returns (Hamlet)
• I did love you once (Hamlet)
• Get thee to a nunnery (Hamlet)
• God hath given you one fast and you make yourselves another (Hamlet)
• Those that are married all but one shall live (Hamlet)
• Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! (Ophelia)
• Madness in great ones should not unwatched go (Claudius)

Act 3, Scene 2

• It out Herods Herods. Pray you avoid it (Hamlet)
• Observe my uncle (Hamlet)
• I did enact Julis Caesar (Polonius)
• Do you think I meant country matters? (Hamlet)
• 'Tis brief my Lord (Ophelia)
• As a woman's love (Hamlet)
• The lady doth protest too much (Gertrude)
• The mousetrap (Hamlet)
• Give me some light. Away! (Claudius)
• I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound (Hamlet)
• My wit's diseased (Hamlet)
• Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe (Hamlet)
• Now could I drink hot blood (Hamlet)
• I will speak daggers to her but use none (Hamlet)

Act 3, Scene 3

• It hath the primal eldest curse upon't a brother's murder (Claudius)
• When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed (Hamlet)
• Then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven (Hamlet)
• And that his soul may be as damned and black as hell whereto it goes (Hamlet)
• My words fly up, my thoughts remain below/Words without thoughts never go to heaven (Claudius)

Act 3, Scene 4 (Closet Scene)

• Thou hast thy father much offended (Gertrude)
• Mother, you have my father much offended (Hamlet)
• O, what a rash and bloody deed is this (Gertrude)
• Look here upon this picture, and on this, the counterfeit presentment of the two brothers (Hamlet)
• Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear, blasting his wholesome brother (Hamlet)
• Oh shame, where is thy blush? (Hamlet)
• Thou turn'st my eyes into my soul, and I see such black and grained spot as will not leave their tinct (Gertrude)
• These words like daggers enter my ears (Gertrude)
• Thou hast cleft my heart in twain (Gertrude)
• To whet thy almost blunted purpose (Ghost)
• Confess yourself to heaven (Hamlet)
• Go not to my uncle's bed (Hamlet)

Act 3, Scene 4

• I must be cruel to be kind (Hamlet)
• I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft (Hamlet)
• I will delve one yard below their mines and blow them at the moon (Hamlet)

Act 4, Scene 1

• There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves (Claudius)
• Where is your son (Claudius)
• Mad as the sea and wind (Gertrude)
• It had been so with us had we been there (Claudius)
• Hamlet in madness hath slain Polonius (Claudius)
• My soul is full of discord and dismay (Claudius)

Act 4, Scene 2

• The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body (Hamlet)

Act 4, Scene 3

• He's loved of the distracted multitude (Claudius)
• Do it England (Claudius)
• Pays homage to us (Claudius)

Act 4, Scene 4

• Oh from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing forth (Hamlet)

Act 4, Scene 5

• Followe her close, give her good watch, I pray you (Claudius)
• When sorrows come, they come not single gpies but in battalions (Claudius)
• Poor Ophelia. divided from herself and her fair judgement (Claudius)
• That drop of blood that calm proclaims me ******* (Laertes)
• Thy madness shall be paid with weight (Laertes)
• There's rosemary, that's for thoughts (Ophelia)

Act 4, Scene 6

Act 4, Scene 5

• Followe her close, give her good watch, I pray you (Claudius)
• When sorrows come, they come not single gpies but in battalions (Claudius)
• Poor Ophelia. divided from herself and her fair judgement (Claudius)
• That drop of blood that calm proclaims me ******* (Laertes)
• Thy madness shall be paid with weight (Laertes)
• There's rosemary, that's for thoughts (Ophelia)

Act 4, Scene 6

•  There's a letter for you (Sailor)

Act 4, Scene 7

• The queen his mother lives almost by his looks (Claudius)
• The great love the general gender bear him (Claudius)
• It warms the very sickness in the heart (Laertes)
• To cut his throat i'th' church (Laertes)
• What would you undertake to show yourself in deed your father's son more than in words (Claudius)
• Pulled the poor wretch from her medious lay to muddy death (Gertrude)
• How much I had to do to calm his rage (Claudius)

Act 5, Scene 1

• Is she to be buried in a Christian burial (Clown)
• If this had not been a gentle woman, she would have been buried out o' Christian burial (Other)
• That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once (Hamlet)
• I think it thine be indeed, for thou lieft in't (Hamlet)
• A shall recover his wites, or if a do not 'tis no great matter there/There the men are mad as he (Clown)
• Alas, poor Yorrick! I knew him, Horatio (Hamlet)
• And with such maimed rites (Hamlet)
• I hope thou should'st have been my Hamlet's wife (Gertrude)
• This is I, Hamlet the Dane (Hamlet)
• I loved Ophelia, forthy thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum (Hamlet)

Act 5, Scene 2

• He that hath killed my king, and whored my mother (Hamlet)
• She sounds to see them bleed (Claudius)
• The king's to blame (Laertes)
• Follow my mother (Hamlet)
• I am more of an antique Rome than a Dane. Here's some liquor left (Horatio)
• The rest is silence (Hamlet)
• Good night sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest (Horatio)
• Go bid the sholdiers shoot (Fortinbras)