Capability Quote by Chukwudi Iwuji

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

— Kenneth Branagh

Hamlet is a little daunting.

— Kyle MacLachlan

We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is, but there's…

— Norah Vincent

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

— Jean Genet

“It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy.”

— Alain de Botton

“Hamlet’s soliloquy, you know; the most celebrated thing in Shakespeare. Ah, it’s sublime, sublime! Always fetches the house. I haven’t got it in the…

— Mark Twain

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity;…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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 Today 17 October 2012.)”

— Hilary Mantel

“and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any…

— Stephen King

Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the…

— Meghan O'Rourke

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

— Jones Very