Hamlet (1948)

Stanley Holloway: Gravedigger

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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?