AP English - Hamlet Famous Lines
Order by
47 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 "O that this too too solid flesh would melt..." (I.ii.129) | Speaker: Hamlet (Soliloquy) |
| "Frailty, thy name is woman!" (I.ii.146) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken of: Gertrude |
| "Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes" (I.ii.256) | Speaker: Hamlet |
| "Do not as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads." (I.iii.47) | Speaker: Ophelia Spoken to: Laertes |
| "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" (I.iii.75) | Speaker: Polonius Spoken to: Laertes |
| "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" (I.iii.78) | Speaker: Polonius Spoken to: Laertes |
| "You speak like a green girl" (I.iii.101) | Speaker: Polonius Spoken to: Ophelia |
| "Giving more light than heat" (I.iii.118) | Speaker: Polonius Spoken to: Ophelia |
| "... it is a custom/More honored in the breach than the observance." (I.iv.15) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio |
| "And for my soul, what can it do to that,/ Being a thing immortal as itself?" (I.iv.66) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio |
| "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (I.iv.90) | Speaker: Marcellus Spoken to: Horatio |
| "Murder most foul" (I.v.27) | Speaker: Ghost Spoken to: Hamlet |
| "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy" (I.v.166) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio |
| "As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/ To put an antic disposition on." (I.v.172) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio & Marcellus |
| "The time is out of joint. O cursed spite/ That ever I was born to set it right!" (I.v.189) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio & Marcellus |
| "Brevity is the soul of wit..." (II.ii.90) | Speaker: Polonius Spoken to: Gertrude |
| "More matter, with less art" (II.ii.95) | Speaker: Gertrude Spoken to: Polonius |
| "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" (II.ii.206) | Speaker: Polonius (aside) Spoken of: Hamlet |
| "...there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so" (II.ii.252) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Rosencrantz Spoken of: Denmark |
| "What a piece of work is a man!" (II.ii.307) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Rosencrantz |
| "I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly/I know a hawk from a handsaw." (II.ii.381) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Guildenstern |
| "What's Hebuca to him, or he to Hebuca/ That he should weep for her?" (II.ii.562) | Speaker: Hamlet (soliloquy) |
| "For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak/with most miraculous organ." (II.ii.558) | Speaker: Hamlet (soliloquy) |
| "... the devil hath power/ T'assume a pleasing shape..." (II.ii.604) | Speaker: Hamlet (soliloquy) |
| "The play's the thing/Wherin I'll catch the conscience of the King" (II.ii.609) | Speaker: Hamlet (soliloquy) Spoken of: the "mousetrap" play |
| "To be, or not to be, that is the question" (III.i.56) | Speaker: Hamlet (soliloquy) |
| "The glass of fashion and the mould of form,/The observed of all observers..." (III.i.156) | Speaker: Ophelia Spoken to: Hamlet |
| "It out-herods Herod" (III.ii.14) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Player |
| "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action" (III.ii.18) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Player Spoken of: the "mousetrap play" |
| "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" (III.ii.234) | Speaker: Gertrude Spoken to: Hamlet Spoken of: the "mousetrap" play |
| "O shame, where is thy blush?" (III.iv.82) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Gertrude |
| "A king of shreds and patches!" (III.iv.103) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Gertrude |
| "...tis the sport to have the enginer/Hoist with his own petar..." (III.iv.206) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Gertrude Spoken of: Hamlet's plan |
| "How all occasions do inform against me..." (IV.iv.33) | Speaker: Hamlet (soliloquy) Spoken of: Hamlet's encounter with Fortinbras |
| "There's such divinity doth hedge a king" (IV.v.123) | Speaker: Claudius Spoken to: Laertes |
| "To cut his throat i' th' church" (IV.vii.125) | Speaker: Laertes Spoken to: Claudius Spoken of: Hamlet |
| "Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,/And therefore I forbid my tears..." (IV.vii.185) | Speaker: Laertes Spoken of: Ophelia's death |
| "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio" (V.i.190) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio Spoken of: Yorick |
| "Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay" (V.i.223) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken of: the skull and Hamlet's new idea of death |
| "Sweets to the sweet!" (V.i.253) | Speaker: Gertrude Spoken of: the flowers on Ophelia's grave |
| "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/ Could not with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum." (V.i.279) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Laertes, Gertrude, Claudius Spoken of: Ophelia |
| "Let Hercules himself do what he may,/The cat will mew, and dog will have his day" (V.i.301) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Laertes, Gertrude, Claudius |
| "There's a divinity that shapes our ends" (V.ii.10) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio |
| "...there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow" (V.ii.221) | Speaker: Hamlet Spoken to: Horatio |
| "Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Oscric./I am justly killed with mine own treachery." (V.ii.310) | Speaker: Laertes Spoken of: the poison |
| "That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead." (V.ii.375) | Speaker: Fortinbras' Ambassador Spoken of: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
| "Let four captains/Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage..." (V.ii.400) | Speaker: Fortinbras Spoken of: Hamlet |
First Time Here?
Welcome to Quizlet, a fun, free place to study. Try these flashcards, find others to study, or make your own.