Hamlet Characters and Quotes

Who says this?

"It shall be so,/Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."

• Hamlet

• Claudius

• Gertrude

• Polonius

Who says this?

"Let it work,/For 'tis the sport to have the enginer/Hoist with his own petard; and it shall go hard/But I will delve one yard below their mines/And blow them at the moon."

• Hamlet

• Polonius

• Ophelia

• Claudius

Who says this?

"The harlot's cheek beautied with plast'ring art/Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it/Than is my deed to my most painted word."

• Hamlet

• The Player Queen

• Gertrude

• Claudius

Who says this?

"May one be pardoned and retain th' offense?"

• The Ghost

• The Player King

• Claudius

• Hamlet

Who says this?

"Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you./Good night, mother."

• Rosencrantz

• Hamlet

• The Ghost

• Ophelia

Who says this?

"I will speak daggers to her, but use none."

• Polonius

• Gertrude

• Claudius

• Hamlet

Who says this?

"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause."

• Hamlet

• Gertrude

• The Ghost

• Polonius

Who says this?

"I do believe you think what now you speak,/But what we do determine oft we break."

• Horatio

• The Player King

• The Player Queen

• Polonius

Who says this?

"Look here upon this picture and on this,/The counterfeit presentment of two brothers."

• Polonius

• Hamlet

• Claudius

• The Ghost

Who says this?

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

• Hamlet

• The Player Queen

• Gertrude

• Ophelia