Hamlet Quotes
Act 1

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
-Marcellus

Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, with martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
-Marcellus

But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son--
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
-Claudius/Hamlet

'Tis here!
'Tis here!
'Tis gone.
-Bernardo/Horatio/Marcellus

You cannot speak of reason to the Dane and lose your voice.
-Claudius

But what is your affair in Elsinore?
We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
-Hamlet

Meet it is I set it down that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
-Hamlet

Now to my word; it is "Adieu, adieu! remember me."  I have sworn't.
-Hamlet

These are wild and whirling words, my lord.
-Horatio

Act 3

I am tame, sir.  Pronounce.
-Hamlet

Then what I have to do
Will want true color; tears perchance for blood.
-Hamlet

Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.
-Hamlet

What devil was't that hath thus cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
-Hamlet

And when you are desirous to be bless'd, I'll blessing beg of you.
-Hamlet

Act 4

Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?
At supper.
At supper?  Where?
Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.
-Claudius/Hamlet

O Gertrude, Gertrude, when sorrows come, they come not in single spies but in battalions.
-Claudius

O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!
-Gertrude

There's rosemary, that's for rememberance.
Pray you, love, remember.
-Ophelia

Act 5

So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.
-Horatio

What is it you would see?
If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.
-Horatio

Take up the bodies.  Such a sight as this
Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
-Fortinbras

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