This quote plays a very significant role in Act IV because this is the point that Hamlet reveals to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that he has in fact killed Polonius. Spoken by Laertes, Act 1, Scene 3. Quote #1 "GHOST Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 75–77 Neither a borrower nor a lender be. This Act 1 summary of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" sets the stage with the characters, setting, plot, and tone of this five-act tragedy. HAMLET Murder! In this quote , Hamlet is self-loathing. Hamlet's fatal flaw is his inability to act decisively to avenge his father's death. Below you will find the important quotes in Hamlet related to the theme of Poison, Corruption, Death. Important Quotes "The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. HAMLET Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. Important Quotes 'Though this be madness, yet there's method in't' (Polonius, Act 2 Scene 2)' ... (Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2) In this quote, Hamlet is on stage alone during soliloquy. Act 1, Scene 2 Quotes O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, The play opens on the ramparts of Elsinore Castle in Denmark during a changing of the guard. Act 1, Scene 3 of Hamlet takes place in the house of the courtier Polonius, who is seeing his son Laertes off to France. He would rather analyze and theorize than act boldly. - Hamlet (1.2) Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Spoken by Polonius, Act 1 … He recognizes this flaw and chastises himself for it, but it will take him the entire play to reconcile it into action. For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute. Hamlet makes this remark to Horatio while explaining how he woke up on board the ship to England and on a sudden impulse snuck in and stole the king’s letter from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When the king of Denmark, Prince Hamlet’s father, suddenly dies, Hamlet’s… Act 1, scene 1 On the guards’ platform at Elsinore, Horatio waits with Barnardo and Marcellus to question a … - Hamlet . Shakespeare Quotes Neither a borrower nor a lender be. - Marcellus to Horatio, (1.4) There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Throughout the second act, you can see Hamlet start to go crazy as he talks through prose. Polonius: Neither a borrower nor a lender be, A little more than kin, and less than kind. No more. Hamlet says to Horatio in Act 1 when he talks of custom that “So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth–wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin– By the o’ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the … GHOST Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural. The king is a thing."