Culture Quote by Hector Berlioz

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

— Hector Berlioz

“Without those peak experiences our lives would be pretty dull and flat. Berlioz put it this way: A life without once reading Hamlet is…

— Haruki Murakami

“Hamlet: … for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so…”

— Hamlet Act 2 scene 2

“There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer.”

— Andrea Dworkin

“Hamlet: “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.”

— Robert A. Caro

“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

“Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever?”

— Alan Bradley

“This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.”

— Patricia Briggs

If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not…

— Orlando Bloom