Tragic Hero Hamlet Quotes – Flashcards
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Horatio
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"In what particular thought to work I know not,/ But in the gross and scope of mine opinion/ This bodes some strange eruption to our state" (lines 67-69)
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Claudius
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"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death/ The memory be green, and that it us befitted/ To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom/ To be contracted in one brow of woe" (lines 1-4)
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Claudius
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"With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,/ In equal scale weighing delight and dole" (lines 12-13).
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Gertrude
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"cast thy knighted colour off, / And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark" (lines 68-69)
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Claudius
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" 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet" (line 87)
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Claudius
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" 'tis unmanly grief,/ It shows a will most incorrect to heaven" (lines 94-95)
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Laertes
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"Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,/ The perfume and suppliance of a minute, / No more." (lines 8-9)
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Laertes
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"His greatness weighed, his will is not his own,/ For he himself is subject to his birth" (line 17-18)
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Polonius
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"This above all, to thine own self be true" (line 78)
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Polonius
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"Tender yourself more dearly,/ Or—not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, / Roaming it thus—you'll tender me a fool." (lines 107-109)
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Marcellus
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (line 90)
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Ghost
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"Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (line 25)
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Ghost
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"The serpent that did sting thy father's life/ Now wears his crown." (line38-39)
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Gertrude
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"Your visitation shall receive such thanks/ As fits a king's remembrance" (lines 25-26)
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Polonius
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"brevity is the soul of wit" (line 90)
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Gertrude
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"More matter with less art" (line 95)
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Polonius
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" (line 200)
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Polonius
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"We are oft to blame in this:/ 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage,/ And pious action, we do sugar o'er/ The devil himself." (lines 46-48)
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Player King
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"Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own" (line 194)
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Gertrude
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"The lady doth protest too much methinks" (line 211)
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Claudius
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"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below./ Words without thoughts never to heaven go" (lines 97-98)
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Gertrude
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"Thou turn'st my eyes into my very soul" (line 89)
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Gertrude
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"This is the very coinage of your brain" (line 138)
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Gertrude
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"To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,/ Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss./ So full of artless jealousy is guilt,/ It spills itself in fearing to be spilt." (lines 17-20)
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Gertrude
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"an envious sliver broke,/ When down her weedy trophies and herself/ Fell in the weeping brook." (lines 173-175)
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Laertes
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"I am justly killed with mine own treachery" (line 287)
