-"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." -Marcellus (fq)
-"All is not well. I doubt some foul play." - Hamlet (THIS IS FORESHADOWING)
-"The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown." (The ghost reveals that the king/uncle guy killed him to take the crown. And Shakespeare really didn't like snakes.)
-"Brevity is the soul of wit." - Polonius (fq)
-"Words, words, words." -Hamlet (fq)
-"For there is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -Hamlet (fq and theme. There's a lot of mixed morals in this play. I'm guessing that this is at a part where Hamlet's convincing himself that killing his uncle would be just okey-dokey.)
-"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." -Polonius (fq! I quote this all the time)
-"A dream itself is but a shadow." (Shakespeare really liked dreams. A lot. And there are several 'dreams' within Hamlet, more in Macbeth but even so. This might refer to Hamlet's father scaring the mess outa Hamlet. He doubts he even saw the ghost and might refer to it as a shadow.)
-"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
Words without thoughts never to heaven go." - Hamlet. (I surely love Shakespeare's couplets. This is where Hamlet is surely going to kill his step-father and surely going to hell for it.)
-"Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go." -Claudius, (now. Who goes crazy in this again? Let's see...Hamlet. OPHELIA.)
-"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - about Queen Gertrude (fq + kudos for using methinks.)
-"Sweets to the sweet, Farewell!" - Gertrude, upon Ophelia's burial (fq)
-"The rest is silence." - Hamlet. (Gosh. Gotta love Shakespeare.)
-"Now cracks the noble heart." -Horatio.
So I'm listening to amazing, powerful cello music which would make for amazingness at the last scene of Hamlet I'm just now realizing. It makes lines like the last three there all the more powerful.
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