Hamlet - Act 3 Quotes

Hamlet - Act 3 Quotes

1. Scene I

   • "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all" - Hamlet
   • "Enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action" - Hamlet
   • "Get thee to a nunnery. Why woulst thou be a breeder of sinners?" - Hamlet
   • "Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them" - Hamlet
   • "Go to, I'll no more on't; hath made me mad" - Hamlet
   • "O! woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" - Ophelia
   • "Love! his affections do not that way tend; Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little, Was not like madness" - Claudius
   • "It shall be so: Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go." - Claudius

2. Scene II

   • "If his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech"- Hamlet
   • "Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife, If once a widow, ever I be a wife" - Player Queen
   • "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" - Queen
   • "Come; the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge" - Hamlet
   • "Give me some light. Away!" - Claudius
   • "I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound" - Hamlet

3. Scene III

   • "My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen" - Claudius
   • "And am I then reveng'd, To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and season'd for his passage? No" - Hamlet
   • "Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes" - Hamlet

4. Scene IV

   • "O! I am slain" - Polonius
   • "A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king, and marry with his brother" - Hamlet
   • "That, laps'd in time and passion, lets go by The important acting of your dread command? O! say" - Hamlet
   • "Lest with this piteous action you convert My stern effects" - Hamlet
   • "Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, And breath of life, I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me" - Queen