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Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? – Spike Milligan	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Hamlet knows a hawk from a handsaw, I know blasphemy from a lie and plagiarism from a bad decision. – King Jehovah Hohenzollern	added by anonymous 3 years ago
When I heard that they produced 'Hamlet', I said to myself, 'Wow, we must have it'. – Jerzy Limon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. – Northrop Frye	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad. – Alfred North Whitehead	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. – A. Whitney Griswold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college. – Tom Masson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?

– Spike Milligan

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Hamlet knows a hawk from a handsaw, I know blasphemy from a lie and plagiarism from a bad decision.

– King Jehovah Hohenzollern

added by anonymous
3 years ago

When I heard that they produced 'Hamlet', I said to myself, 'Wow, we must have it'.

– Jerzy Limon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

– Northrop Frye

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad.

– Alfred North Whitehead

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

– A. Whitney Griswold

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

– Tom Masson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.

– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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