You boast about knowing the most famous lines in English literature, but can you really identify the more obscure warnings and barbs with the right speaker? This Hamlet Quotes Quiz is meant to humble anyone who hasn’t studied the delicate dialogue of the Danish court. See if your ear is attuned to the Bard’s verse.
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Hamlet Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
- “To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
- “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
- “Frailty, thy name is woman!”
- “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”
- “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”
- “Get thee to a nunnery.”
- “The rest is silence.”
- “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
- “Give me that man that is not passion’s slave.”
- “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
- “Conscience does make cowards of us all.”
- “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.”
- “O, that this too too solid flesh would melt.”
- “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”
- “I must be cruel, only to be kind.”
- “O Hamlet, speak no more! Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul.”
- “Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
- “When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.”
- “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
- “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.”
- “Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven.”
- “What a piece of work is a man!”
- “O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven.”
- “This above all: to thine own self be true.”
- “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.”
- “Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.”
- “O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”
- “The apparel oft proclaims the man.”
- “To die, to sleep—perchance to dream.”