Hamlet Book Quotes

#1. The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written.

Harold Bloom

#2. My enlightened racial consciousness demands that I reject the so-called greatness of William Faulkner and William Shakespeare. I don't have time for any of that Hamlet jive -- but Marvel superheroes are super cool.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in music. Everybody can have anything that they want, so now it gets into what specifically you have to give.

Eric Lewis

#4. I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.

Anne Fletcher

#5. Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.

Tim Cook

#6. You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

Margaret Cho

#7. It will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.

Gary Speed

#10. Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Joyce Meyer

#11. Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost.

Brigham Young

#12. Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They're much better than any column of political analysis.

Subcomandante Marcos Laura Castellanos

#13. I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

Henry Rollins

#14. A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means I've survived.

Chris Cleave

#16. What kind of an animal would do such a thing? The old me, I think. ***

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#17. I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on 'Hamlet' and caused quite a lot of trouble!

Seanan McGuire

#18. Let's life bring a joy, and let's realise that this now is a lie and to make a truth. To make a real life!

Deyth Banger

#19. Not the same thing in my opinion. You forgive for you. To find peace. You don't want that toxic shit eating up your soul. But you can use the injustice to fuel you." I

Leslie N. Johnson