Hamlet/characters

Famous quotes containing the words hamlet and/or characters:

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

“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)