Hamlet Quote Identification Quiz

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.”

“The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.”

“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt.”

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven.”

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.”

“Conscience does make cowards of us all.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“The apparel oft proclaims the man.”

“Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

“Frailty, thy name is woman!”

“O Hamlet, speak no more! Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul.”

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.”

“O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven.”

“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”

“The rest is silence.”

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”

“Give me that man that is not passion’s slave.”

“Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.”

“What a piece of work is a man!”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“I must be cruel, only to be kind.”

“Get thee to a nunnery.”

“O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”

“To die, to sleep—perchance to dream.”

“The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”