Hamlet Quotes

Act 1, Scene 2:

"Frailty, thy name is woman!" Hamlet is speaking about ______

Act 1, Scene 3:

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” “This above all: to thine own self be true” Polonius is speaking to ______

Act 1, Scene 4: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Marcellus is speaking to ______.

Act 2, Scene 2: “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Polonius is speaking to ______

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.” Polonius is speaking about ______.

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?” Hamlet is speaking to ______.

“The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.” Hamlet is talking about ______.

Act 3, Scene 1: “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd!” Hamlet’s soliloquy

“Get thee to a nunnery.” Hamlet is speaking to ______.

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.” King Claudius is speaking about ______.

Act 3, Scene 2: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Queen Gertrude is speaking about ______.

Act 3, Scene 4: “I must be cruel only to be kind.” Hamlet is speaking to ______.

Act 5, Scene 1: “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!” Hamlet is talking about ______.

“Sweets to the sweet.” Queen Gertrude says to ______.