Hamlet

Famous quotes containing the word hamlet:

    “Let four captains
    Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
    For he was likely, had he been put on,
    To have proved most royally.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “They know that Hamlet and Lear are gay;
    Gaiety transfiguring all that dread.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)