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{{quote|''Did Ophelia ask Hamlet to bed?''<br />

''Was Gertrude incestuously wed?''<br />

''Is anything certain?''<br />

''By the fall of the curtain''<br />

''[[Kill'Em All|Almost everyone's certainly dead.]]''|'''A. Cinna''', found in ''The Penguin Book of Limericks''}}

{{quote|'''Naomi''': ''Hamlet's basically [[Did Not Do the Research|a teenage]] [[Emo|boy]]. He's [[All Men Are Perverts|got all these desires]], but [[Cannot Spit It Out|he doesn't have the bottle to reach out for them]]. So, [[Love Makes You Crazy|he goes mad]], and [[Wangst|wanks off]] about [[The Ophelia|Ophelia]], and [[Foreshadowing|ends up so boring, somebody has to kill him]]!'' <br />

'''Josie''': ''I'm not sure that's right. There's no wanking in ''Hamlet''.'' <br />

'''Naomi''': ''Yeah, there is. Loads. Only they call it "[[Surrogate Soliloquy|soliloquising]]"''.|''[[Skins]]''}}

{{quote|''[[Wangst|Cheer up, Hamlet; chin up, Hamlet; buck up, you melancholy Dane!]]''<br />

''So your uncle is a cad who murdered Dad and married Mum?'' <br />

''That's really no excuse to be as glum as you've become!''<br />

''So wise up, Hamlet; rise up, Hamlet; perk up and sing a new refrain!''<br />

''Your incessant monologuing fills the castle with'' ennui.<br />

''Your antic disposition is embarrassing to see.''<br />

''And by the way, you sulky brat, the answer is 'to be'!'' <br />

''You're driving poor [[The Ophelia|Ophelia]] insane.'' <br />

''So shut up, you rogue and peasant; grow up, it's most unpleasant; cheer up, you melancholy Dane!''|''[[Slings and Arrows]]'' }}

{{quote|''"Half of what he says means something else, and the other half means nothing at all!"''|''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''}}

{{quote| ''Higgeldy Piggeldy,<br />

''Hamlet of Elsinore<br />

''Ruffled the critics by<br />

''Dropping this bomb:<br />

''"Phooey on Freud and his<br />

''Psychoanalysis --<br />

''Oedipus, Shmoedipus,<br />

''I just loved Mom."'' }}

{{quote| ''Are the commentators on '''Hamlet''' really mad or only pretending to be mad?''}}

{{quote|''I like to think that there's a little Hamlet in all of us. Not that melancholy stuff. Or being a prince. But I've always believed that we should have a little Danish in us. Especially in the morning.''|'''-- [[Leslie Nielsen]]'''}}

{{quote| ''An interesting anagram: "To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." becomes.... "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."''}}

{{quote| '''''Green Eggs and Hamlet'''<br />

by Tim Hnetka<br />

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