Quotation by Shakespeare

The play, I remember, pleased not the million, 'twas caviare
to the general.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2, l. 435-7.

"Caviare to the general" means too rare a delicacy for the multitude.
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