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Hamlet Quotes
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- 1'O that this too sallied flesh would melt’/’a beast that wants discourse of reason’(Act 1. Scene 2)Oh, if only my dirty flesh would melt and then evaporate into a dew/ a wild beast would have mourned longer than she did!
- 2‘O most pernicious women, O villain, villain smiling damned villain’(Act 1. Scene 5)Oh, you wicked woman! Oh, you villain, villain, damned, smiling villain!
- 3‘For the power of Beauty will sooner transform Honesty from what it is bawd than the force of Honesty can translate Beauty into his likeness’(Act 3. Scene 1)Pg. 319Because the power of beauty is more likely to change a good girl into a whore than the power of purity is likely to change a beautiful girl into a virgin
- 4‘For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either rein the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency’(Act 3. Scene 4)How you act can change your nature, and either keep the devil inside or kick him out
- 5‘“herb of grace” o’ Sundays.—Oh, you must wear your rue with a difference.’(Act 4. Scene 5)We call it the merciful Sunday flower, though you should wear it for a different reason
- 6‘Oh, limed soul that struggling to be free / Art more engaged’(Act 3. Scene 3)My soul is trapped in sin, and the more it struggles to be free, the more trapped it gets. Help me, angels! Make an effort.
- 7‘She's so conjunctive to my life and soul / That as the stars move not but in his sphere / I could not but buy her’ (Act 4. Scene 7)*She is so closely connected to my life and soul that I can’t live apart from her—just as a planet can’t leave its orbit
- 8‘A bloody deed-almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother’ (Act 3. Scene 4) *A horrible act—almost as bad, my good mother, as killing a king and marrying his brother.
- 9‘These words like daggers enter in my ears’ (Act 3. Scene 4) *Your words are like daggers stabbing my ears. No more, sweet Hamlet.
- 10‘I have no life to breath what thou has said to me’ (Act 3. Scene 4)I will give up my life rather than breathe a word of what you’ve said to me.
- 11‘Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt. Thaw and resolve into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon against self slaughter’. (Act 1. Scene 2)Oh, if only my dirty flesh would melt and then evaporate into a dew, or that God had not outlawed suicide.
- 12‘The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.’‘The play’s the thing I’ll use to reveal the conscience of the king.’ (Act 2. Scene 2)
- 13‘Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.’ (Act 3. Scene 1)Go to a convent. Why would you want to give birth to sinners? I’m as good as the next man, and yet I could accuse myself of such horrible crimes that it would’ve been better if my mother had never given birth to me.
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- GCSE History Flashcards on Hamlet Quotes, created by Kyle Campbell on 03/03/2019.
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- Kyle Campbell · Mar 2019
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