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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark QUOTES

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark QUOTES

1 " When the line is delivered, Hamlet is gazing on Yorrick's skull, casually unearthed by the gravedigger. Yorrick's fame grew out of being the line which accompanied what is perhaps the single most recognizable iconic image in literature: a man in black, considering a human skull. Show some form of that picture to most moderately educated people and plenty who aren't and they'll know that the man is Hamlet. Such things don't find their way into the popular consciousness by accident and trivial though the line may sound, it speaks to the heart of the play: a man compelled by circumstances outside of his control to confront his own mortality. "

― A.J. Hartley , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

2 " I’ve never fully trusted people who don’t like dogs. They rarely turn out well. "

― A.J. Hartley , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

3 " And so the Scots grew restless, moaning all the time as only they could. "

― A.J. Hartley , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

4 " Content,” Guildenstern agreed. “One aspires to happiness, but not too much since one would not wish to be disappointed. "

― A.J. Hartley , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

5 " The prince put the dagger on the table. “Sorry.”
Yorick bent forward and looked up into his eyes. “Don’t forget our respective places here. I’m your clown. Your plaything. Your toy. Scarcely human. No need to apologise. "

― A.J. Hartley , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

6 " Suicide was a sin. It would condemn her for eternity. But so was murder, even a just one sought out of righteous grief.
The revenger always dug two graves, they said. One for his victim. One for himself. She’d never understood that old saying till now.
Either way she was dead. "

― A.J. Hartley , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

7 " If you wanted reflections on the nature of the universe and your place in it, you should have stayed in school. You want fart noises and cock jokes, I’m your man. "

― A.J. Hartley , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

8 " What kind of love demands the life of another? A child at that?”
“Danish love, my sweet. Can’t you smell it? "

― A.J. Hartley , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

9 " Where on earth do you get a rose in Elsinore in the middle of winter?” “Don’t you want it?” She took the flower from him, kissed his cheek. No bristles. No beard. A clean-shaven man with a kind and amiable face. Scheming. She didn’t doubt it. But he was a diplomat by training. It was only to be expected. And if he’d lacked those skills perhaps neither of them would have managed Old Hamlet’s death, the marriage, the succession so easily. "

― A.J. Hartley , Hamlet, Prince of Denmark