Quotes on Ophelia

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

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

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

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

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.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.