Hamlet key quotes cards

"A little more than Kin and less than kind"

• Hamlet in response to Gertrude 

"Seems madam?... I know not seems"

• Hamlet In response to Gertrude

"These indeed seem for they are actions a man might play"

• Hamlet In response to Gertrude

"These but trappings and suits of woe"

• Hamlet to Gertrude
• Critic; Goethe (Hamlet presents a romantic image of an individual destroyed by his innermost life)

"Tis unmanly grief"

• Claudius to Hamlet

"And think of us as a Father"

• Claudius to Hamlet

"O that this too too solid flesh would melt"

• Hamlet

"Unweeded garden"

• Hamlet

"Frailty, thy name is woman"

• Hamlet

"A beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer"

• Hamlet

"With such dexterity to incestuous sheets"

• Hamlet

"Affection? Pooh, you speak like a green girl"

• Polonius to Ophelia

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

• Marcellus to Horatio 

"This most foul and strange murder"

• Ghost to Hamlet

"My Most seeming virtuous Queen"

• Ghost to Hamlet

"To put an antic disposition on"

• Hamlet to Horatio and Marcellus

"The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right"

• Hamlet 

"Denmark's a prison"

• Hamlet to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz

"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in faculties... how like an angel"

• Hamlet 

"Get thee to a nunnery"

• Hamlet to Ophelia

"Forgive me my foul murder'? That cannot be since I am still possessed Of those effects for which I did the murder"

• Claudius

"In the corrupted currents of this world offence's gilded hand may shove by justice"

• Claudius
  

"Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul, and there I see such black and grained spots"

• Gertrude to Hamlet 

"Don not forget, this visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose"

• Ghost to Hamlet

"My madness speaks. It will skin and film the ulcerous place"

• Hamlet to Gertude

"Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved"

• Claudius 

"O from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth"

• Hamlet

"there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now... yet it will come"

• Hamlet to Horatio

"Here though incestuous murderous, damned Dane, drink off this poison"

• Hamlet to Claudius 

"Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, of accidental judgements, casual slaughters, of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause"

• Horatio