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)

    “I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)