Hamlet quotes by theme

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Corruption
something is rotten in the state of Denmark
 
tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed
 
time is out of joint
 
this bodes some strange eruption to our state
 
foul deeds will rise, though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes
 
murder most foul... but this most foul, strange, and unnatural
 
the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown
 
I am sick at heart
 
hyperion to a satyr
 
a little more than kin, and less than kind
 
a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer
 
my offence is rank, it smells to heaven
 
for like hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me
 
no more like my father than I to Hercules
 
my words fly up, my thoughts remain below. words without thoughts never to heaven go
 
mirth in funeral and dirge in marriage
 
here is your husband, like a mildewed ear. blasting his wholesome brother
 
hoist with his own petard
 
things rank and gross in nature
 
tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world
 
to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
 
this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promonotory
 
do not spread compost on the weeds to make them ranker
 
Denmark's a prison
 
incestuous sheets
 
foul and pestilent congregation of vapours
 
what devil was it that hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?
 
by our late dear brother's death our state be disjoint and out of frame
 
like the owner of a foul disease, to keep it from divulging, let it feed even on the pith of life
 
in heaven... if your messenger find him not there, seek him in the other place yourself
 
no place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize
Madness
mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is mightier
 
he waxes desperate with imagination - horatio
 
for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad
 
your noble son is mad... to define true madness, what is it to be nothing else but mad?
 
a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell
 
Hamlet's transformation... not the exterior nor the inward man resembles what it was
 
madness in great ones must not unwatched go
 
this is the very ecstasy of love
 
mad for thy love?
 
her speech is nothing
 
o, this is the poison of deep grief
Madness/ Deception
I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft
 
to put an antic disposition on
 
crafty madness - Guildenstern
 
he puts on this confusion - Claudius
 
nor what he spake, though it lacked form a little, was not like madness
 
I am mad but north-north-west
 
my wit's diseased
 
though this be madness, yet there is method in it
Deception
do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe... though you can fret me, yet you cannot play me
 
your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth
 
you are a fishmonger
 
my two school fellows, whom I will trust as I will adders fanged
 
smiling, damned villain
 
my words fly up, my thoughts remain below
 
sponge... that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities
Justice/natural order
Where the offence is, let the great axe fall
 
Hoist with his own petard
 
leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, to prick and sting her
 
there's a divinity that shapes our ends
 
as a woodcock to mine own springe... I am justly killed with mine own treachery
 
the foul practice hath turned itself on me
Revenge
revenge his foul and most unnatural murder
 
I, with wings as swift as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge
 
how all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge
 
the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King
 
let me be cruel, not unnatural
 
whet thy almost blunted purpose
 
as a woodcock to mine own springe... I am justly killed with mine own treachery
 
to slit his throat in the church
 
prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell
 
o what a rogue and peasant slave am I
 
he that plays the king shall be welcome
 
Priam's slaughter
 
I will speak daggers to her, but use none
 
my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth
 
the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge
 
no place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize; revenge should have no bounds
 
let not ever the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom
 
revenge should have no bounds
 
let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew and the dog will have his day
 
is it not to be damned to let this canker of our nature come
Fortinbras as a foil
young Fortinbras, of unimproved mettle hot and full
 
here shows much amiss
 
spirit with divine ambition puffed
 
how all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge
 
he hath not failed to pester us with message, importing the surrender of the lands lost by his father
 
to recover of us, by strong hand... those forsaid lands so by his father lost
Laertes as a foil
I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance your skill shall, like a star i'the darkest night, stick fiery off indeed
 
to cut his throat in the church
 
I am satisfied in nature
 
I'll be revenged most thoroughly for my father
 
it warms the very sickness in my heart, that I shall live and tell him to his teeth, 'thus diest thou'
 
I'll touch my point with this contagion, that if I gall him slightly, it may be death
Duty/filial obligation
o cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right
 
I am too much in the sun
 
my fate cries out
 
the survivor bound in filial obligation for some term to do obsequious sorrow
 
unpregnant of my cause
 
I lack advancement
 
there lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick and snuff that will abate it (claudius about Laertes' revenge)
Gender
the canker galls the infants of the spring too oft before their buttons be disclosed
 
get thee to a nunnery
 
tis unmanly grief
 
frailty, thy name is woman
 
the lady doth protest too much, methinks
 
in second husband let me be accurst (metadrama)
 
let in the maid, that out a maid never departed before
 
you promised me to wed. so would I a done, by yonder sun, and thou hadst not come into my bed
 
when these are gone, the woman will be out
Grief/identity
O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt thaw and resolve itself into a dew
 
to be or not to be
 
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.
 
to die, to sleep. to sleep, perchance to dream.
 
though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green
 
cast thy nighted colour off
Morality/conscience
to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man
 
there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so
 
a dream itself is but a shadow
 
to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
 
we are arrant knaves all
 
conscience does make cowards of us all
 
my stronger guilt defeats my strong intent
 
what if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's blood, is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow?
 
bow, stubborn knees
 
I must be cruel only to be kind
 
so full of artless joy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt
 
that we would do we should do when we would
 
but, to know a man well, were to know himself
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