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For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold
And I am sick at heart. |
Act I Scene i line 10.
Francisco says this to Barnardo who comes to relieve Francisco of his guarding duty. |
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But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. |
Act I Scene i line 167
Horatio says this to Marcellus, dawn has broke, and the cock has crowed, scaring away the ghost. Horatio states that they need to find Hamlet, believing that since the ghost did not speak to him, it will surely speak to Hamlet. |
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It is not, nor it cannot come to good;
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue! |
Act I Scene ii line 158
This is from Hamlet's first soliloquy. Hamlet is speaking of how no good can come from or is signaled by his mother's swift re-marriage. But he cannot speak of the matters, or grieve, due to the King and the Queen's wishes. |
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We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
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Act I Scene ii line 175
Hamlet says this to Horatio, upon asking why Horatio has come to Denmark. |
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The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed blood. |
Act II Scene i line 32
Polonius says this to Reynaldo, the man he has chosen to spy on his son Laertes while he is in Paris. Polonius tells Reynaldo to gossip about Laertes to find out his true actions, to verbally show that Laertes is a free spirit who has acted a bit out of hand. |
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This is the very ecstasy of love.
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Act II Scene i line 101
Polonius says this to Ophelia, who has just witnessed Hamlet's first act of madness. Hamlet bursts into Ophelia's personal chamber half dressed and frantic. Polonius describes that Ophelia's rejection of Hamlet has left him insane, and that they must report this to the King. |
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Act II Scene ii line 90
Polonius says this to Claudius as he is about to describe the "true" reason of Hamlet's madness. Claudius means that he is going to be short, for being concise is wise. |
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To define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad? |
Act II Scene ii line 93
Polonius, about to describe the true reason for Hamlet's madness to Claudius, states that Hamlet is flat out crazy, because there is no other way to describe his actions. (Here again we see Polonius contradicting himself - he's getting off topic yet he just said being concise is wise) |
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Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. |
Act II Scene ii line 116
Polonius is reading aloud to the King and Queen, a love letter that Hamlet wrote to Ophelia. Polonius is using this as part of his explanation of Hamlet's "true reason" for his madness. |
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Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes,
is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. |
Act II Scene ii line 179
Hamlet says this to Polonius, as Polonius confronts Hamlet who has just walked in reading a book. Hamlet says this after calling Polonius a Fishmonger. |
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They have plentiful lack of wit.
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Act II Scene ii line 200
Hamlet, awfully distracted by his book, is describing the words which his book conveys about old men to Polonius. Polonius had asked Hamlet what the matter of his book was saying. |
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Though this be madness, yet there is no method in't.
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Act II Scene ii line 211
Polonius says this to himself, as he evaluates Hamlet's analysis of the words he has just read to Polonius. |
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Act II Scene ii line 259
Hamlet says this to Rosencrantz and Guildentstern as he describes Denmark as a prison, and they both disagree. |
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A dream itself is but a shadow.
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Act II Scene ii line 261
Hamlet says this to Guildenstern as Guildenstern says that ambition is just a shadow of a dream |
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O God! I could be bounded in a nut-shell,
and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. |
Act II Scene ii line 263
Hamlet says this to Rosencrantz, upon Rosencrantz saying that Hamlet is too ambitious, and that Denmark is too small for his mind, this is why it feels like a prison to him. |
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I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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Act II Scene ii line 405
Hamlet says this to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tried to trick Hamlet into believing that they were not sent for by the King and Queen. Hamlet tells them that he is only crazy sometimes, othertimes he knows what is going on. |
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Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
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Act II Scene ii line 561
Hamlet says this to Polonius, after the players have performed a short part of the play, Polonius stops them. Hamlet tells Polonius to treat them more than fairly. |
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The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape. |
Act II Scene ii line 640
Hamlet says this to himself in his soliloquy, he is doubting the ghost's nature, with fear that it may be a devil taking advantage of his natural depression. |
