ACT I
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
Marcellus
“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief”
Polonius
"Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works."
Ghost of King Hamlet
“Lord, we know what we are, but know not
what we may be. God be at your table!”
Ophelia
“Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;
I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.”
Laertes
“When he the ambitious Norway combated”
Horatio
“what a rogue and peasant slave am I!”
Hamlet
“Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
What thou hast said to me.”
Gertrude
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies
But in battalions.”
Claudius
“For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:
I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.”
Fortinbras