Hamlet Quotes

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

— Edward Bond

To each our own Hamlet.

— Jasper Fforde

“They say an old man is twice a child”

— William Shakespeare

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

— Ben Kingsley

“Well said, old mole!”

— Shakespeare

Hamlet is a little daunting.

— Kyle MacLachlan

Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

— Kurt Vonnegut

“O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!”

— William Shakespeare

“I had no one, but Hamlet. Who hated me with the fire of a thousand suns.”

— Cora Carmack

If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'

— Kelly Asbury

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

— Joel Kinnaman

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

— H. L. Mencken

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

— Matt Lucas

“A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.”

— Hector Berlioz

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

— Harvey Korman

“He dodged remarkably fast for a melancholy introvert.”

— Lisa Mantchev

“In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“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

“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

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

— James M. Barrie

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

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

— Jasper Fforde

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

— Carol Zaleski

“Who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered…

— Shakespeare

When I think of all the Hamlets I've seen, there's been a load of different styles, some marvellous. You like the Hamlet…

— Eileen Atkins

“Good Gad! It looks like the last act of Hamlet in here. Turnip banged his head against his clenched fists, making inarticulate…

— Lauren Willig

My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great…

— Ryan North

I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet'…

— Damien Chazelle

Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet…

— Jason Gann

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

“When we see plays performed on the stage, we work with a different set of standards. Hamlet is ours to picture as…

— Peter Mendelsund

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean…

— William Shakespeare

“I will receive it sir with all diligence of spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use, 'tis for the head. OSRIC…

— William Shakespeare

“I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet…

— Neil Gaiman

“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,…

— Ronald Carter

“My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a…

— William Shakespeare

“In view of this, it may seem remarkable that anything as complex as a text of Hamlet exists. The observation that Hamlet…

— William Poundstone

“Many terribly quiet customers exist but none more terribly quiet than Man his footsteps pass so perilously soft across the sea in…

— Sophocles Carson Anne