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)

“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)