Hamlet Quotes
Hamlet quotes “Frailty, thy name is woman!” Hamlet; Hamlet is angry with his his mother for re marrying as quickly as a he did. He is saying that a woman changes her mind quickly . “Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak’d meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”
Hamlet; it was right after they buried his father that his mother married his uncle. It happened in such a short time that Hamlet feels like the food from the funeral could have been used for the wedding tables.
“Perhaps he loves you now, / …but you must fear, / His greatness weighed, his will is not his own; / For he himself is subject to his birth: / He may not, as unvalued persons do, / Carve for himself; for on his choice depends / The safety and health of this whole state….” Laertes; Hamlet is not allowed to make choices just for himself, he has to think of the kingdom since he is next to be king.
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel….”
Polonius; he is telling his son to hold onto the old friends he has made “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend, / And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.”
Polonius; he is telling his son to not borrow anything or lend anything because borrowing can ruin your name and lending can ruin friendships. “This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Polonius; If you are true to yourself, you won’t be false to anyone else. “Murder most foul, as in the best it is; / But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.”
Dead King Hamlet; he is telling Hamlet that all murder is bad, but his was foul, strange, and unnatural because it was his brother who killed him in a sneaky way. “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life / Now wears his crown.”
Hamlet; it was right after they buried his father that his mother married his uncle. It happened in such a short time that Hamlet feels like the food from the funeral could have been used for the wedding tables.
“Perhaps he loves you now, / …but you must fear, / His greatness weighed, his will is not his own; / For he himself is subject to his birth: / He may not, as unvalued persons do, / Carve for himself; for on his choice depends / The safety and health of this whole state….” Laertes; Hamlet is not allowed to make choices just for himself, he has to think of the kingdom since he is next to be king.
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel….”
Polonius; he is telling his son to hold onto the old friends he has made “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend, / And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.”
Polonius; he is telling his son to not borrow anything or lend anything because borrowing can ruin your name and lending can ruin friendships. “This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Polonius; If you are true to yourself, you won’t be false to anyone else. “Murder most foul, as in the best it is; / But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.”
Dead King Hamlet; he is telling Hamlet that all murder is bad, but his was foul, strange, and unnatural because it was his brother who killed him in a sneaky way. “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life / Now wears his crown.”