Quote by William Shakespeare

“Is this a prologue or a posy of a ring? Ophelia: Tis brief, my lord Hamlet: As woman's love.”

— William Shakespeare

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

— William Shakespeare

“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

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

— Robert A. Caro

To each our own Hamlet.

— Jasper Fforde

“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!" — Hamlet, Act I, Scene V”

— Hamlet Act I Scene V William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Andrea Dworkin

“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

“You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet .”

— Susan Mallery

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

— Hamlet Act 2 scene 2

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

— Carol Zaleski