Revenge, action, and inaction

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Sulfurous and tormenting flames [of purgatory]”

The Ghost

Act 1 Scene 5

“Foul, strange and unnatural [murder]”

The Ghost

Act 1 Scene 5

“I’ll have these players / Play something like the murder of my father / Before mine uncle. I’ll observe his looks.”

Hamlet

Act 2 Scene 2

“The play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”

Hamlet

Act 2 Scene 2

“Purpose is but the slave to memory, / Of violent birth, but poor validity.”

Player King

Act 3 Scene 2

“What to ourselves in passion we propose, / The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.”

Player King

Act 3 Scene 2

“Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 2

“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 2

“Oh, what a rash and bloody deed this is!”

Gertrude

Act 3 Scene 4

“Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger.”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 4

“Oh, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 4

“How all occasions do inform against me / And spur my dull revenge!”

Hamlet

Act 3 Scene 7

“Revenge should have no bounds.”

Laertes

Act 3 Scene 3

“To cut his throat i’ th’ church.”

Laertes

Act 3 Scene 7

“Nature her custom holds / Let shame say what it will.”

Polonius

Act 5 Scene 1

“Their defeat does by their own