This is a collection of Hamlet quotes for all key themes (Indecision, Loyalty, Death, Religion, Politics & Corruption, Comedy, Deception, Madness, Women, Revenge and Appearance) and all characters. Quotes are arranged by scene and make great revision posters! Targeted for A Level students but will...
‘There are more
‘The play’s the thing
‘with wings as swift things in heaven and
wherein I’ll catch the
‘My fate cries out’ … May sweep to my earth, Horatio than
conscience of the
1.4 revenge’ are dreamt of in our
king’
1.5 philosophy’
2.2
1.5
‘Must like a whore
‘Bloody, bawdy ‘I am pigeon livered
‘Am I a coward?’ unpack my heart with
villain!’ and lack gall’
2.2 words’
2.2 2.2
2.2
‘To die, to sleep/To
‘Like john-a-dreams, ‘Conscience does
‘Undiscovered sleep perchance to
unpregnant of my make cowards of us
country’ dream, ay there’s the
cause’ all’
3.1 rub’
2.2 3.1
3.1
‘When he is drunk
‘And so he goes to
‘Now might I do it ‘This same villain asleep, or in his rage,
heaven; and so I am
pat, he is praying’ send to heaven’ or in th’incestuous
revenged’
3.3 3.3 pleasure of his bed’
3.3
3.3
‘only I’ll be revenged
‘O, What a rash and ‘A king of shreds and ‘A foolish prating
most thoroughly for
bloody deed is this!’ patches’ knave’
my father’
3.4 3.4 3.4
4.5
‘Alexander died
‘Who shall stay ‘He leaps in after ‘He stabs claudius ...
alexander was buried,
you?’/’My will, not all laertes, grappling he forces claudius to
alexander returneth
the world’ with him’ drink’
to dust’
4.5 5.1 5.2
5.1
, Loyalty
'Tis in my memory lock'd,
‘I shall obey, my ‘Revenge his foul and
‘Too much i’th’sun’ And you yourself shall
lord.’ most unjust murder'
1.2 keep the key of it’
1.3 1.3 1.5
‘Must like a whore 'brevity is the soul of ‘Good gentlemen, he
unpack my heart with ‘Am I a coward?’ wit, I will be brief. hath much talked of
words’ 2.2 Your noble son is mad' you’
2.2 2.2 2.2
‘To visit you, my lord, ‘My excellent good ‘I think nothing my ‘A king of shreds and
no other occasion.’ friends!’ lord’ patches’
2.2 2.2 3.2 3.4
‘O hamlet thou hast ‘I have no life to
‘Who was in life a
‘I’ll lug the guts’ cleft my heart in breathe what thou
foolish prating knave’
3.4 twain’ hast said to me’
3.4
3.4 3.4
‘And from her fair ‘Rosencrantz and
‘A knavish speech
‘Mad as the sea’ and unpolluted flesh guildenstern are
sleeps in a foolish ear’
4.1 May violets spring!’ dead’
4.2
5.1 5.2
‘He stabs claudius ...
‘I pray you pardon ‘She drinks and offers ‘Come let me wipe
he forces claudius to
me’ the cup to Hamlet’ thy face’
drink’
5.2 5.2 5.2
5.2
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