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)

    “Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to come out first in the happy ending of moral uplift.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)