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)