Shakespeare ’s plays feature many soliloquies, some of which are his most famous passages. Perhaps the most famous is Hamlet ’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy, where Hamlet contemplates suicide . The audience is taken through his thought processes, where he balances the pros and cons of ending his life – an all time classic soliloquy.
"Out of the mouth of the Mother of God , More than the doors of doom, I call the muster of Wessex men From grassy Hamlet or ditch or den, To break and be broken, God knows when, But I have seen for whom.
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince.
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
john evelynI would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
Jack (John Uhler) LemmonHamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
hugh kingsmillKing Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear.
paul scofieldHamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhen we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.)
stephen jay gouldThe playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
walter scottThe cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth, "Now the king drinks to Hamlet."
william shakespeareHamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
william shakespeareHamlet: The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. Horatio: It is a nipping and an eager air.
william shakespeareThis is I, Hamlet the Dane!
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage.
This isn't Hamlet , you know. It's not meant to go into the bloody ear.
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the Hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
thomas grayEach in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude Forefathers of the Hamlet sleep.
thomas grayThis being great news to me, I pressed Kivoi for further information. He said, 'You will see both mountains at some distance from my Hamlet, when there shall be a clear sky. It is ten days' journey from here to the white mountain in Jagga [Kilimanjaro], but only six to that of Kikuyu [Mount Kenya].' ~ Johann Ludwig Krapf