Hamlet Ophelia Quotes - Page 2

• One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, War, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 105

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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, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints

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

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• More matter with less art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Hamlet And Ophelia, Matter

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 95

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

  William Shakespeare

  God, Despair, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.46, Palgrave Macmillan

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

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Hamlet And Ophelia, Green

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

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• There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Humanity

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• What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and
  heaven?

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Humanity, Hamlet And Ophelia

  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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Hamlet And Ophelia, Fairness

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

  Aldous Huxley

  Smile, Men, Hamlet And Ophelia

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  William Shakespeare

  Acting, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

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

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• My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

  Claudius

  Language And Power, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

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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, Hamlet And Ophelia

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

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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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• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

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

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Epic Poems, Voice

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

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• Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Law, Tunes

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [159]

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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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• 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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• 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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• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Names, Mad

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.201, BookCaps Study Guides

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