Appearance and reality

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Though yet of Hamlet our late brother’s death / The memory be green.”

Claudius

Act 1 Scene 2

“A little more than kin and less than kind.”

Hamlet

Act 1 Scene 2

“Not so, my lord. I am too much i’ the sun.”

Hamlet

Act 1 Scene 2

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

Polonius

Act 1 Scene 3

Hamlet’s “antic disposition”

Hamlet

Act 1 Scene 5

“Words, words, words” and “except my life, except my life, except my life”

Hamlet

Act 2 Scene 2

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

Hamlet

Act 2 Scene 2

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw”

Hamlet

Act 2 Scene 2

“to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 2

“One scene of [the play] comes near the circumstance / Which I have told thee of my father’s death”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 2

“Mad as the sea and wind when both contend / Which is the mightier”

Ophelia

Act 4 Scene 1

“If Hamlet from himself be ta’en away, / And when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes, / Then Hamlet does it not. Hamlet denies it. / Who does it, then? His madness.”

Hamlet

Act 5 Scene 2