Hamlet

Famous quotes containing the word hamlet:

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

    “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death
    The memory be green.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?”
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)