On Stage
Who’s there?
Barnardo, Act 1, Scene 1
Claudius: But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son.
Hamlet: A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Act 1, Scene 2
O That this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew...
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2
Frailty, thy name is woman!
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Polonius, Act 1, Scene 3
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Polonius, Act 1, Scene 3
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Marcellus, Act 1, Scene 4
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5
Murder most foul – as in the best it is –
But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
Ghost, Act 1, Scene 5
The time is out of joint; O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5
Therefore, brevity is the soul of wit
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
I will be brief: your noble son is mad.
Polonius, Act 2, Scene 2
Words, words, words.
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
Though this be madness yet there is method in’t.
Polonius, Act 2, Scene 2
...There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so...
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
...I have of late – but wherefore I know not – lost all my mirth...
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
What a piece of work is a man!
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
… The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
To be, or not to be, that is the question...
Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1
Get thee to a nunnery!
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
Ophelia, Act 3, Scene 1
… O, woe is me
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see.
Ophelia, Act 3, Scene 1
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
Claudius, Act 3, Scene 1
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you – trippingly on the tongue.
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action...
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Gertrude, Act 3, Scene 2
O, my offence is rank; it smells to heaven...
Claudius, Act 3, Scene 3
I must be cruel only to be kind.
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4
’Tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard.
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4
One woe doth tread upon another’s heel,
So fast they follow.
Gertrude, Act 4, Scene 7
Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1
There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be, ‘tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all...
Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2
A hit. A very palpable hit.
Osric, Act 5, Scene 2
The rest is silence.
Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2
