Ophelia Quotes - Page 2

• Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Memorable, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 100

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• 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

  Valentines Day, Saint, Maids

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Hamlet. Cymbeline”, p.281

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• I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Advice, Hamlet And Ophelia

  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

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• 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

  Country, Lying, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Williams (2013). “Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel”, p.94, Reclam Verlag

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• He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Gone, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [29]

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• 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.

  Gregory Doran

  Girl, School, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

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• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Disease And Death, Political

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

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Men, Nausea

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• Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Jewelry, Lord

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [165]

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• Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

  Jack White

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?

  Spike Milligan

  Use, Kind, Said

  Spike Milligan, “A Silly Poem”

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• I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

  Julia Stiles

  Roles, Innocent, Stiles

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• Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Be Patient, Patient

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

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Missing, Said, Only Time

  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

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• I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Cutting, Math

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Juliet

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.58, St. Martin's Griffin

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• 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.

  Jean Lorrain

  Eye, Dark, Sea

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about the difference between men and women - power, privilege, voting rights, etc. Unfortunately, it quickly moved to the "women are better" argument. If this were true in life or in fiction, we wouldn't have any dark or deep characters. We wouldn't have any Salomes, Carmens, Ophelias. We wouldn't have any jealousy or passion.

  Margaret Atwood

  Passion, Character, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?

  Milan Kundera

  Character, Essence, Dumb

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• What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

  Louis Aragon

  Wine, Fire, Lazy

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• 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

  Daughter, Father, Long Ago

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.193, Delacorte Press

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• Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  May, Charming, Theater

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• But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Thee, Marble

  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.

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