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Gertrude Quotes In Hamlet
"Stay! Speak, speak! I charge thee, speak" | Horatio to King's Ghost
He is sent to decide if the Ghost is really Hamlet Sr. |
1.1
"A little more than kin and less than kind." | Hamlet in an aside about Claudius.
When Claudius and Gertrude are talking to Hamlet after their wedding about his long mourning. |
1.2
"o that this too too solid flesh would melt,That, and resolve itself into a dew" | Hamlet in his first soliloquy. but it isn't really about suicide |
1.2
"Frailty, thy name is women! | Hamlet in soliloquy about Gertrude's hasty remarriage. |
1.2
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be.... This above all - to thine own self be true." | Polonius to Laertes |
1.3
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." | Marcellus to Horatio |
1.4
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1.5
"The serpent that did sting they fathers life / Now wears his crown." | Ghost to Hamlet |
1.5
"The time is out of joint! O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right." | Hamlet after the Ghost leaves and he has sworn to avenge. |
1.5

"Brevity is the soul of wit." | Polonius to King and Queen when Polonius is telling the King and Queen the reason to Hamlet's madness. |
2.2
"More matter with less art" | Gertrude to Polonius same conversation as above, doesn't give less art |
2.2
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." | Polonius aside about Hamlet during their conversation after Polonius' conversation with king and queen |
2.2
"what a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties..." | Hamlet to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz |
2.2
"The play is the thing/ Wherein i'll catch the conscience of the king" | Hamlet at the end of his 2nd soliloquy when he wants to be sure Claudius is guilty before he kills him.

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