Act 3
Scene 1
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Claudius: ‘ How smart a lash that that speech give my conscience! / The harlot’s cheek, beautified with
plastering art, / Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it / Than is my deed to my most painted word:
/ O heavy burden!’
Hamlet:’ 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’ p.
Hamlet:’The dread of something after death / ( the undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No
traveller returns’
Hamlet:’Conscience does make cowards of us all’
Hamlet:’Their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action’
Hamlet: ‘Get thee to a nunnery’
Hamlet: ‘God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.’
Ophelia: ‘O, what a noble mind is here overthrown!…T’have seen what I have seen, to see what I see!’
Claudius: ‘There’s something in his soul / O’er which his melancholy sits in brood…’
Claudius: ‘Madness in great ones shall not go unwatched’
Scene 2
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Hamlet: ‘Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.’
Hamlet: ‘Give me that man / That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him / In my heart’s core’
Pl.Queen: ‘A second time I kill my husband dead / When second husband kisses me in bed’
Pl. King: ‘Purpose is but the slave to memory’
Hamlet: ‘Now could I drink blood, / And do such bitter business as the day / Would quake to look on’
Scene 3
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Claudius: ‘My offence is rank, it smells to heaven; / It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t’
Claudius: ‘I am still possessed / Of those effects for which I did the murder: / My crown, mine ambition,
and my Queen’
Hamlet:’This is hire and salary, not revenge’
Scene 4
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Hamlet: ‘You go not till I set you up a glass / Where you may see the inmost part of you.’
Hamlet: ‘You cannot call it love, for at your age / The heyday in the blood is tame’
Gertrude: ‘Thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul / And there I see such black and grainèd spot’
Gertrude: ‘These words like daggers enter in mine ears’
Hamlet: ‘Heaven hath pleased it so, / To punish me with this…I must be their scourge and minister.’
Act 4
Scene 1
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Gertrude: ‘Hamlet is like ‘an ore / Among a mineral of metals base’
Scene 2
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Hamlet: ‘The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body. The King is a thing-‘
Scene 3
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Claudius: ‘He’s loved of the distracted multitude’
Hamlet: ‘A king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar’
Scene 4
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Captain: ‘We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name’
Hamlet: ‘Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats’
Hamlet:’Whether it be / Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple / Of thinking to precisely on th’
event…I do not know / Why yet I live to say ‘This thing’s to do’,/ Sith I have cause, and will, and
strength, and means’
Hamlet:’a delicate and tender prince’
Hamlet:’ Exposing what is mortal and unsure / To all that fortune…even for an egg-shell’
Hamlet: ‘Rightly to be great…to find quarrel in a straw/ When honour’s at the stake’
Hamlet:’fantasy and trick of fame’
Scene 5
 Gent: ‘She says she hears there’s tricks i’th’world’
 Ophelia: ‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be’
 Claudius: ‘Poor Ophelia / Divided from herself’
 Claudius: ‘There’s such divinity doth hedge a king / That treason can peep to what it would’
 Claudius: ‘Let the great axe fall’
Scene 7
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Claudius: ‘The Queen his mother / Lives almost by his looks…She’s so conjunctive to my life and soul’
Hamlet: ‘High and mighty, you shall know I am set naked on your kingdom’
Claudius: ‘Your sum of parts…pluck such envy from [Hamlet]’
Laertes: ‘To cut his throat i’th’ church.’
Gertrude: ‘There’s a willow grows aslant a brook…Therewith fantastic garlands did she make…of
crow-flowers, nettles and daisies…’
Act 5
Scene 1
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Hamlet: ‘We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us’
Hamlet: ‘Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust’
Hamlet: ‘The cat will mew and the dog will have his day’
Scene 2
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Hamlet: ‘There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will’
Hamlet: ‘He that hath killed my king, and whored my mother…popped in between my hopes…my
proper life’
Hamlet: ‘Is’t not to be damned, / To let this cancer of our nature come / In further evil?’
Hamlet: ’There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow…the readiness is all’
Hamlet: ‘Report me and my case aright / To the unsatisfied’
Hamlet: ‘He has my dying voice…the rest is silence’
Horatio: ‘Carnal, bloody and unnatural acts / Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, / Of deaths
put on by cunning and forced cause’
Fortinbras: ‘I have some rights of memory in this kingdom’
Fortinbras: ‘Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage, / For he was likely, had he been put on, / To have
proved most royally’