“For this relief much thanks: ‘tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.”
Said by Francisco to Bernardo
100
“The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
Hamlet to Horatio/guards
100
"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:
And thus we do of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out"
Polonius to Reynaldo
100
"You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will
more willingly part withal: except my life, except
my life, except my life."
Hamlet to Polonius
100
"I shall obey you.
And for your part, _____, I do wish
That your good beauties be the happy cause
Of Hamlet's wildness:"
Gertrude to Claudius/Ophelia
200
“…and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
To be contracted inone brow of woe”
Claudius to the Court
200
“By indirections find directions out”
Polonius to Reynaldo
200
"Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief."
Polonius to Claudius/Gertrude
200
"Denmark's a prison."
Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
200
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
Hamlet to self
300
“Seems, madam! nay,it is; I know not ‘seems’
Hamlet to Gertrude
300
“ More matter, with less art.”
Gertrude to Polonius
300
" What a piece of work is a
man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!"
Hamlet to Rozencrantz or Guildnstern
300
"I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is
southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."
Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
300
"Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so."
Ophelia to Hamlet
400
“ Thrift, thrift, ________! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”
Hamlet to Horatio
400
“Though this be madness, yet there is
method in’t”
Polonius to self (it's an aside)
400
"Take this from this, if this be otherwise:
If circumstances lead me, I will find
Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
Within the centre."
Polonius to Claudius
400
"We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need,
study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which
I would set down and insert in't, could you not?"
Hamlet to First Player
400
"It shall do well: but yet do I believe
The origin and commencement of his grief
Sprung from neglected love."
Polonius to Claudius
500
“as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Polonius to Laertes
500
“For Hecuba!
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba
That he should weep for her?”