Hamlet (1948)

Norman Wooland: Horatio, His Friend

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  The Royal Court Of Denmark - Laertes,his Son : Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, nor thine on me.

  [dies] 

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : Heaven make thee free of it. I follow thee. I am dead, Horatio.

  [to poisoned Gertrude] 

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : Wretched Queen... adieu.

  [to all present, keeling and bowing] 

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : You that look pale and tremble at this chance, that are but mutes or audience to this act, had I but time - as this fell sergeant Death is strict in his arrest - O, I could tell you... But let it be.

  [helped by Horatio to his seat, the throne he's been denied of] 

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : I die, Horatio. The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. If thou didst ever hold me in they heart, absent thee from felicity awhile, and in this harsh world... draw thy breath in pain to tell my story. The rest... is silence.

  [dies] 

  Horatio : Let four captains bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage, for he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royal. And for his passage, the soldiers' music and the rites of war speak loudly for him. Go. Bid the soldiers shoot.

  [to dead Hamlet] 

  Horatio : Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

  [kisses Hamlet's forehead] 

• Horatio : Oh, day and night, but this is wondrous strange.

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : And therefore, as a stranger, give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

• Horatio : I have heard, the cock that is the herald to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day.

• Horatio : Take up the bodies: such a sight as this / Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. / Go, bid the soldiers shoot!

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : My father. Methinks I see my father.

  Horatio : Where, my lord?

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : In my minds eye, Horatio.

  Horatio : I saw him once. He was a goodly king.

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : He was a man. Take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

  Horatio : My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : I'll follow it!

  Horatio : What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that beetles o'er his base into the sea, and there assume some other horrible form, which might deprive your sovereignty of reason and draw you into madness? Think of it!

• Horatio : Look, my Lord, it comes!

  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, thou comest in such a questionable shape... that I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet, King, Father. Royal Dane, oh, answer me!

• Horatio : But look, the morn in russet mantel clad walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.