Hamlet Named

Famous quotes containing the words hamlet and/or named:

“Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death
The memory be green.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)