Act 2

• "The play's the thing

  Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" - Hamlet to Horatio


  Act 2, Scene 2
• "By indirections find directions out" - Polonius advicing Reynaldo to spy on Laertes


  Act 2, Scene 1
• "This is the very ecstasy of love" - Polonius to Ophelia about Hamlet's madness


  Act 2, Scene 1
• "I have found

  The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy" - Polonius telling Claudius and Gertrude about his 'discovery'


  Act 2, Scene 2
• ""More matter, with less art" - Gertrude getting impatient with Polonius


  Act 2, Scene 2
• "[aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." - Polonius' remark on Hamlet's words


  Act 2, Scene 2
• "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is

  southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." - Hamlet confusing Guildenstern and Rosencrantz


  Act 2, Scene 2
• "But I am pidgeon-livered and lack gall

  To make oppression bitter." - Hamlet's soliloquy reflecting on his cowardice


  Act 2, Scene 2