Key Quotes From Hamlet – Acts 1 to 3
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Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not “seems.
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…to persever
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubborness; ‘tis unmanly grief:
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
An understanding simple and unschool’d…
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O, that this too too-solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!…
Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
Hi canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! God! O God!
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…Frailty, thy name is woman!
…married with mine uncle,
My father’s brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month…
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I pray thee, do not mock me fellow-student;
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I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.
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For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,
Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood,
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting…
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Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar….
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice…
Neither a borrower nor a lender be…
This above all: to thine own self be true…
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once despatch’d;…
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head….
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven…
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…smiling, damned villain!
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My tables – meet it is I set it down,
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That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain…
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What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason!
How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how
express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In
apprehension how like a god!… And yet, to me, what is
this quintessence of dust?
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
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Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.
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I am but mad north-north –west: when the wind is
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southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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The play’s the thing
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Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
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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.
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Get thee to a nunnery…
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O what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
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Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.
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The lady protests too much, methinks.
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Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of
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me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know
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my stops….
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O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven…
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May one be pardon’d and retain the offence?
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…now I’ll do’t: and so he goes to heaven:
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And so am I revenged.
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A bloody deed; almost as bad, good mother,
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As kill a king, and marry with his brother.
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Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
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I took thee for thy better; take thy fortune…
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I must be cruel, only to be kind…
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