Hamlet And Ophelia Quotes

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

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Advice, Lessons

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

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memories, Keys

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.221

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• So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Memorable, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.329, Classic Books Company

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• The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  1600-1 Hamlet to Laertes. Hamlet, act 5, sc.1, l.288-9.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Tears, Too Much

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 186

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• O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Kings, Science

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

  William Shakespeare

  Important Hamlet, Polonius, Hamlet 2

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [221]

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Father, Sunday

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare".

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

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Joints, Hamlet Revenge

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

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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, Green

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

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• I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Denmark In Hamlet, Be Kind

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.59

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• It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tongue, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 158

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• And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Desire, Her Beauty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 34

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• Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

  William Shakespeare

  Doors, Play, House

  1600-1 Hamlet, of Polonius. Hamlet, act 3, sc.1, l.134-5.

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• What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

  William Shakespeare

  Acting, Hamlet Revenge, Polonius

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [584]

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• Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Green, Speak

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 101

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• How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Stills

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections & illustrations of various commentators”, p.24

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• The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Power, Devil

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.199, Classic Books Company

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• A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Violet, Youth

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.60, Classic Books Company

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

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Shapes

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• What if this cursed hand
  Were thicker than itself with brother's blood
  Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves
  To wash it white as snow?

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Brother

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

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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

  Jewelry, Lord, Prologue

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

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

  William Shakespeare

  Strange, Murder, Hamlet Revenge

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 27

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