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)

    “What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is.”
    —Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)