Quotes About Ophelia In Hamlet

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

Julia Stiles

#2. John Coffey was torn open by what he had done ... but he would live. The girls would not. They had been torn open in a more fundamental way.

Stephen King

#3. But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare

#4. 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

#5. You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#7. I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?

William Shakespeare

#8. The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

#9. Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#10. 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

#11. She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

Victor Hugo

#12. Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

William Shakespeare

#13. You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

William Shakespeare

#14. I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

Shari Sebbens

#15. Don't sit down in the middle of the woods. If you're lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

Margaret Atwood

#16. I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

Kathleen Turner

#17. It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.

Ione Skye

#18. If I have to do battle with you a thousand times to prove my point, I'll do it.'
The queen unwisely asked, 'But to prove what point, my dear Hamlet?'
'That I loved Ophelia! Fifty thousand brothers, with all the love they can summon, would not equal my love for here. Ophelia, Ophelia.

John Marsden

#19. 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

#20. I hate having people sit in on meetings.

Ivanka Trump

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

Spike Milligan

#22. Be patient, Ophelia.

Love,
Hamlet

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#23. That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

William Shakespeare

#24. I live for what I haven't done.

Donna Karan

#25. 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

#26. Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

Dan Auerbach

#27. Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

William Shakespeare