Hamlet/influence

Famous quotes containing the words hamlet and/or influence:

    “Let four captains
    Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
    For he was likely, had he been put on,
    To have proved most royally.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)