Line #22 Quotes/Hamlet


1	->''Did Ophelia ask Hamlet to bed?''\
2	''Was Gertrude incestuously wed?''\
3	''Is anything certain?''\
4	''By the fall of the curtain''\
5	''[[EverybodyDiesEnding Almost everyone's certainly dead.]]''
6	-->-- '''A. Cinna''', found in ''The Penguin Book of Limericks''
7
8	->'''Naomi:''' Hamlet's basically a teenage [[{{Emo}} boy]]. He's [[AllMenArePerverts got all these desires]], but [[CannotSpitItOut he doesn't have the bottle to reach out for them]]. So, [[LoveMakesYouCrazy he goes mad]], and [[{{Wangst}} wanks off]] about [[TheOphelia Ophelia]], and [[{{Foreshadowing}} ends up so boring, somebody has to kill him]]!\
9	'''Josie:''' I'm not sure that's right. There's no wanking in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.\
10	'''Naomi:''' Yeah, there is. Loads. Only they call it "[[SurrogateSoliloquy soliloquising]]".
11	-->-- ''Series/{{Skins}}''
12
13	->''[[{{Wangst}} Cheer up, Hamlet; chin up, Hamlet; buck up, you melancholy Dane!]]''
14	->''So your uncle is a cad who murdered Dad and married Mum?''
15	->''That's really no excuse to be as glum as you've become!''
16	->''So wise up, Hamlet; rise up, Hamlet; perk up and sing a new refrain!''
17	->''Your incessant monologuing fills the castle with'' ennui.
18	->''Your antic disposition is embarrassing to see.''
19	->''And by the way, you sulky brat, the answer is 'to be'!''
20	->''You're driving poor [[TheOphelia Ophelia]] insane.''
21	->''So shut up, you rogue and peasant; grow up, it's most unpleasant; cheer up, you melancholy Dane!''
22	-->-- ''Series/SlingsAndArrows''
23
24	->'''Rosencrantz:''' Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn't mean anything at all!
25	-->-- ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead''
26
27	->''Higgeldy Piggeldy,\
28	Hamlet of Elsinore\
29	Ruffled the critics by\
30	Dropping this bomb:\
31	"Phooey on Freud and his\
32	Psychoanalysis --\
33	Oedipus, Shmoedipus,\
34	I just loved Mom."''
35
36	->''Are the commentators on '''Hamlet''' really mad or only pretending to be mad?''
37
38	->''I like to think that there's a little Hamlet in all of us. Not that melancholy stuff. Or being a prince. But I've always believed that we should have a little Danish in us. Especially in the morning.''
39	-->-- '''Creator/LeslieNielsen'''
40
41	->''An interesting anagram: "To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." becomes... "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."''
42
43	->'''''Green Eggs and Hamlet'''\
44	by Tim Hnetka\
45	\
46	I ask to be, or not to be.\
47	That is the thing, I ask of me.\
48	This sullied life, it makes me shudder.\
49	My unc' is boffing my dear mother.\
50	Would I, could I take my life?\
51	Could I, should I, end this strife?\
52	Should I jump out of a plane?\
53	Or lie down in front of a train?\
54	Should I from a cliff just leap?\
55	Could I put myself to sleep?\
56	Shoot myself, or take some poison?\
57	Maybe try self immolation?\
58	To shudder off this mortal coil,\
59	I could stab myself with a foil,\
60	Or slash my wrists while in the bath?\
61	Would it help to end my wrath?\
62	To sleep, to dream, aye, there's the rub.\
63	I'd drop a toaster in my tub.\
64	Would they be happy, with me dead?\
65	Could I murder them instead?\
66	These thoughts take much consideration,\
67	I'm the prince of procrastination.''
68
69	->''Prince Hamlet thought uncle a traitor\
70	For having it off with his mater.\
71	"Revenge Dad or not?"'s\
72	The gist of the plot.\
73	He did -- nine soliloquies later.''
74	-->-- '''Stanley J. Sharpless'''
75
76	->''Will you kill him in his bed?\
77	Stick a dagger in his head?\
78	I would not, could not kill the king.\
79	I would not do this evil thing.\
80	I will not wed this girl, you see.\
81	So get her to a nunnery.''
82	-->-- '''Green Eggs and Hamlet'''
83
84	->'''Officer Don:''' Hamlet? The story is as old as time: Pretty boy son has a rich daddy, and a good-looking mommy. The uncle knocks off daddy, marries mommy, and he cuts pretty boy out of the action. So junior goes crazy and he kills them all. Not a pretty story... but there it is.\
85	'''Tommy Solomon:''' Isn't that the plot to 'The Lion King'?
86	-->-- ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''

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