Hamlet quotes act 3

He does confess he feels himself distracted,
But from what cause he will by no means speak.

Rosencrantz to king

The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns

Hamlet to Ophelia
Talking about death, life after death

My lord, I have remembrances of yours That I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you now receive them.

Ophelia to hamlet
giving letters and stuff from Hamlet back to him

We shall know by this fellow. The players cannot keep counsel; they'll tell all.

Hamlet to Ophelia; the actors will spill the secrets

O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

Claudius in his soliloquy about his brother's death.
praying but not really praying

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. / Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Claudius aside about his prayer after Hamlet decides he can't kill Claudius because he is praying.

O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!

Getrude to Hamlet
She's upset hamlet killed polonius

O Hamlet, speak no more! Thou turn'st my eyes into my very soul, and there I see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct.

Gertrude to hamlet

Do not forget. This visitation
Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.

Ghost to Hamlet with Gertrude in room
hamlet is told not to kill Claudius yet.

There's letters seal'd; and my two school fellows, whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd.

Hamlet to Queen
Saying that rose and guild are snakes

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Saying they can't play a flute and won't try but they try to play him

Your Majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not.

Hamlet to Claudius; We are innocent and our souls are free, so the play won't bother us.

There is a play tonight before the King. One scene of it comes near the circumstance which I have told thee of my father's death.

Hamlet to Horatio

The instances that second marriage move are base respects of thrift, but none of love. A second time I kill my husband dead when second husband kisses me in bed.

Player Queen in the play; someone might marry a 2nd time for money, not love. But when I kiss my 2nd husband, I would kill my first again.

So think thou wilt no second husband wed, but die thy thought then thy first lord is dead.

Player King in the play; you think now you'll never remarry, but that thought with die with me, your first husband

No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest. No offense i' th' world

Hamlet to the king; he's saying the play is just a joke, not real

Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your greifs to your friend.

Rosencrantz to Hamlet; you're walking a thin line if you don't say what's wrong