I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you. — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
“My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski Copy Share Image
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what… — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
“In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Honestly, if you're just going to be the love interest then at least let it be a really good movie. Not every… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time! — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
“Alone in my chamber, I fairly trembled with excitement. How could it be that I, who had never been kissed before, had… — Lisa M. Klein Copy Share Image
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great… — Chukwudi Iwuji Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will endure everything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“ Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to remain within: that is the question: Whether 'tis… — Henry N. Beard Copy Share Image
“The character and the play of Hamlet are central to any discussion of Shakespeare's work. Hamlet has been described as melancholic and… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
“Just before we have sex, the question often is: To pee, or not to pee?” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Conscience doth make cowards of us all. William Shakespeare, Hamlet — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
“Hamlet: … for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so…” — Hamlet Act 2 scene 2 Copy Share Image
“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!" — Hamlet, Act I,… — Hamlet Act I Scene V William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“One thing he'd learned in ten years on the New York Stage was this: don't make friends with the man who plays… — Thomas Dyja Copy Share Image
“...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.” — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
