Hamlet Quotes

155 quotes by 126 authors

Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. — Thomas Gray
I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord"… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers… — William Shakespeare
Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom." — Robert Breault
The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a… — C.S. Lewis
Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a… — William Butler Yeats
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody… — Carlos Fuentes
Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do. — Peter Cushing
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each… — Oscar Wilde
But thereâ€™s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: itâ€™s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth… — Kurt Vonnegut
We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining. — Emile Hirsch
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare â€” or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't… — Paul Scofield
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. — Walter Scott
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love. — William Shakespeare
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. — Jack Lemmon
Hamlet is a little daunting. — Kyle MacLachlan
The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable… — Graham Nelson
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the… — Trevor Nunn

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