Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer. (Hugh Kingsmill)

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Hugh Kingsmill

Related topics

observer Quixote

Related quotes

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. View quote
Thomas Sydenham
Parry is a creation - somewhat Don Quixote, somewhat Groucho Marx - but he's a creation designed to avoid a past event. View quote
Robin Williams
Cervantes confronted typographic man in the figure of Don Quixote. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep? View quote
Miguel de Cervantes