Quotes About Elsinore

#1. If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

James M. Barrie

#2. Yes, a ghost, thought the Count, as he moved silently down the hall. Like Hamlet's father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after the midnight watch . . . Or like Akaky Akakievich, that forsaken spirit of Gogol's who in the wee hours haunted the Kalinkin Bridge in search of his stolen coat . . . Why

Amor Towles

#3. But in the beaten way of friendship what make you at Elsinore?

William Shakespeare

#4. Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.

Jan Morris

#5. In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'

Paul G. Quinnett

#6. When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.

John De Ruiter

#7. If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

Eugen Weber

#8. By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

Jacqueline Kelly

#9. If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

Keeley Hawes

#10. The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

John McGahern

#11. Domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Rebecca West

#12. Thank God for the Bible, the Word of God.

Adrian Rogers

#13. Is you look good, you feel good!

Sophie Kinsella

#14. I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.

Martin Freeman

#15. But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

John Slattery