Hamlet (1948)
Stanley Holloway: Gravedigger
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Quotes
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : Why was he sent into England?
Gravedigger : Why? Because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there. Or if he do not, tis no great matter there.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : Why?
Gravedigger : It will not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.
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Gravedigger : This same skull, sir, was Yorick's skull. The king's jester.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : This?
Gravedigger : E'en that.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : Let me see. Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. But now how abhorred in my imagination it is. My gorge rises it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your jibes now? Your songs? Your gambols? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning?