Hamlet/characters

Famous quotes containing the words hamlet and/or characters:

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

    “Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)