Ophelia Quotes

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  • There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10
  • Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

    Men   Epic Poems   Voice  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58
  • I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [291]
  • There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.

    Sweet   Father   Sunday  
    "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare".
  • I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [420]
  • Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

  • Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

    Fate   Men   Nausea  
  • Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 100
  • I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

    William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes”, p.146
  • Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]
  • What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?

    William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920
  • When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]
  • I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

  • What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

    Missing   Ophelia   Said  
    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.283, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

    Calumny Is   Ice   Snow  
    William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920
  • But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

    Humorous   Ophelia   Thee  
    1884 The Duke's version of Hamlet's soliloquy, combining elements of other speeches by Hamlet and pieces of Macbeth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.21.
  • Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.

    William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag
  • It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

    Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.193, Delacorte Press
  • Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

    Life   Memories   Keys  
    William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.221
  • We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]
  • This above all; to thine own self be true.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58
  • I went to a Jesuit school and they did a William Shakespeare play every year. I got to know Shakespeare as parts I wanted to play. I missed out on playing Ophelia - it was an all-boys school. The younger boys used to play the girls, I played Lady Anne in Richard III and Lady Macbeth, then Richard II and Malvolio. I just became a complete Shakespeare nut, really.

    Girl   School   Boys  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

    William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books
  • You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 101
  • He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [29]
  • The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.

    Eye   Dark   Sea  
    Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books
  • Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [174]
  • Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.

    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Hamlet. Cymbeline”, p.281
  • Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 47
  • Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 90
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