Hamlet Quotes

Act I - Team 1

1. Our sometime sister, now our Queen.

2. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

3. Why, what should be the fear?

I do not set my life at a pin's fee,

And for my soul, what can it do to that,

Being a thing immortal as itself?

4. I'll speak to it though Hell itself should gape

And bid me hold my peace.

5. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

6. Murder most foul, as in the best it is;

But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

Act I - Team 2

1.Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,

Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,

Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,

Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.

And recks not his own rede.

2.Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not "seems."

3. Frailty, thy name is woman!

4. O most pernicious woman!

O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!

My tables, — meet it is I set it down,

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

5. Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats

Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

6. O horrible, O horrible, most horrible!

Act I - Team 3

1. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

2. Claudius: ...But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son —

Hamlet: A little more than kin, and less than kind.

Claudius: How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

Hamlet: Not so my lord; I am too much i' the sun.

3. For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favours,

Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood;

4. A violet in the youth of primy nature,

Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,

The perfume and suppliance of a minute —

No more.

5. 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.

6. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

Seem to me all the uses of this world.

Act I - Team 4

1. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.

2. The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,

That ever I was born to set it right!

3. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;

4. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

5. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

6. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Act I - Team 5

1. The serpent that did sting thy father's life

Now wears his crown.

2. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

3. Neither a borrower nor a lender be:

For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

4.My hour is almost come

When I to sulphrous and tormenting flames

Must render up myself.

5. 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.

6. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

Seem to me all the uses of this world.

Act II - Team 1

1. That I, the son of a dear father murdered,

Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,

Must like a whore unpack my heart with words,

and fall a-cursing like a very drab

2. Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

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