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100

"To be, or not to be, that is the question"

Hamlet

100

"I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy" -Polonius

Madness

100

"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.

100

"The drink, the drink! I am poisoned." -Queen

Act 5 (Scene 2)

100

“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.

200

"O, I am slain!"

Polonius

200

"What have I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me?" -Queen

What have I done for you to be so rude to me?
200

"Alas, poor Yorick!" -Hamlet

Act 5 (Scene 1)

200

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.” -Polonius 

Polonium noticing hamlets behaviour may be an act and his madness may be on purpose

300

"I am justly killed with mine own treachery"

Laertes

300

"As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on" -Hamlet

Madness (saying he's gonna act crazy)

300

"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)

300

“ 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

400

"Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark"

Osric

500
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

Marcellus