I sometimes wonder what men live up to Hamlet's ideal in the following quote, though they say he said it with irony. But I don't know if people realize. The quote also contains a gay joke people sometimes miss. Hamlet finishes the quote "man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." To which Rosencrantz assures him "My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts." It's ironic, because people had a much different view of homosexuality back then. "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!" —fr. Shakespeare's Hamlet.
