Who Said This?
"To be, or not to be, that is the question"
Hamlet
"I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy" -Polonius
Madness
"This above all: to thine own self be true" -Polonius
Above everything else, always be true to yourself.
"The drink, the drink! I am poisoned." -Queen
Act 5 (Scene 2)
“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.” -Hamlet
Basically saying his madness is an act and was used strategically.
"O, I am slain!"
Polonius
"That one may smile and smile and be a villain."
- Hamlet
Deception
"That I am guiltless of your father's death, and am most sensibly in grief for it" -King
I did not kill your father, and I am grieving too.
"Alas, poor Yorick!" -Hamlet
Act 5 (Scene 1)
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.” -Polonius
Polonius noticing hamlets behaviour may be an act and his madness may be on purpose
"I am justly killed with mine own treachery"
Laertes
"As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on" -Hamlet
Madness (saying he's gonna act crazy)
"What have I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me?" -Queen
"Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish king. Tell him that by his license Fortinbras craves the conveyance of a promised march over his kingdom" -Fortinbras
Act 4 (Scene 4)
“ I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth” - Hamlet
Hamlet describes his emotional drawback showing signs of actual mental illness/madness
"Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark"
Osric
"I do not know Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,”" - Hamlet
Hesitation
"Give thy thoughts no tongue" -Polonius
Don't say everything you think out loud.
"The play’s the thing Where in I’ll catch the conscience of the King." - Hamlet
Act 2 (Scene 2)
“Her speech is nothing, yet the unshaped use of it doth move the hearers to collection.” - Gentleman
Shows the collapse of Ophelia's mental state caused by her father's death and Hamlet's rejection. Unlike Hamlet's "madness," it shows what real madness is like.
Marcellus
"So, lust, though to a radiant angel linked, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garbage."
- Ghost of King Hamlet
Corruption/Decay
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions" -Claudius
Problems do not arrive one at a time; they all come at once.
"There’s a divinity that shapes our ends." - Hamlet
Act 5 (Scence 2)
“It is not madness that I have uttered. Bring me to the test, and I will reword the matter.” - Hamlet
Hamlet tells others to listen to his words more logically, he does this to prove he is still sane and to reinforce the fact that his madness is an act rather than genuine madness.