| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 51312 |
| QUOTATION: | Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio—a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 5, sc. 1, l. 180-1 (1604).
Said of Hamlet’s father’s jester, whose skull has just been dug up. “Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Shakespeare Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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