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Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet -- Kurt Vonnegut
Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader? -- Rainbow Rowell
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears. -- William Shakespeare
I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent. -- Julia Stiles
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. -- William Shakespeare
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love. -- William Shakespeare
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? -- Spike Milligan
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! -- Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona. -- Shari Sebbens
Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off her tongue. Soon, she'd probably be shoplifting. She expected that was how it started. -- Karen Foxlee
Everyone says to you, 'if you play Ophelia, you'll end up crazy,' but we're all somewhere on the spectrum of mental health, and I think that if you approach it that way it's not such an intimidating issue. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about. -- Natasha Trethewey
You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances. -- William Shakespeare
Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. -- William Shakespeare
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears. But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out! Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze, But that this folly doubts it. -- William Shakespeare
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

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