Important Quotes From Hamlet Flashcards
Hamlet
"We fat all creature else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots."
Hamlet
"How stand I then, that I have a father killed, a mother stained. Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep--while, to my shame, I see the imminent death of twenty thousand men."`
Hamlet
The devil hath power t' assume a pleasing shape.
Claudius
"Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?
Polonius
"Let his queen mother all alone entreat him to show his grief. Let her be round with him, and I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear of all their conference."
Polonius
"Be you and I behind an arras then.Mark the encounter."
Hamle
Why, e'en so. And now my Lady Worm's,chapless and knocked about the mazard with a sexton's spade. Here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to see 't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with them? Mine ache to think on 't
Hamlet
Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.O, that that earth which kept the world in aweShould patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!
Hamlet
"Seems," madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems."
Polonius
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of bias,By indirections find directions out.
Hamlet
Nothing but to show you how a king may go aprogress through the guts of a beggar.
Hamlet
A man may fish with the worm that hath eatof a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of thatworm.
Voltemand (Messenger)
Upon our first, he sent out to suppressHis nephew's levies, which to him appearedTo be a preparation 'gainst the Polack,But, better looked into, he truly foundIt was against your Highness.
Ghost
O wicked wit and gifts, that have the powerSo to seduce!âwon to his shameful lustThe will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.