Gertrude Quotes in Hamlet

Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, / Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state, / Have we, as ’twere with a defeated joy, / With one auspicious and one dropping eye, / With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, / In equal scale weighing delight and dole, / Taken to wife;

So lust, though to a radiant angel link’d, / Will sate itself in a celestial bed / And prey on garbage.

Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive / Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, / And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, / To prick and sting her.

More matter, with less art.

None wed the second but who kill'd the first.

Let me be cruel, not unnatural. / I will speak daggers to her, but use none; / My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.

Here is your husband, like a mildew’d ear / Blasting his wholesome brother.

A bloody deed. Almost as bad, good mother, / As kill a king and marry with his brother.

You are the Queen, your husband’s brother’s wife, / And, would it were not so. You are my mother.

Come, come, and sit you down, you shall not budge. / You go not till I set you up a glass / Where you may see the inmost part of you.