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

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Author:William Shakespeare

“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

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

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

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Author:Spike Milligan

“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.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“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.”

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Book:Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel

Source: Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel. William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Reclam Textausgabe + Lektüreschlüssel

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

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Author:William Shakespeare

“What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?”

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Author:Milan Kundera

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

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Book: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

Source: 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

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

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Book:Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet

Source: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet

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

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Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

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

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Author:William Shakespeare

“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.”

“Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?”

Book:The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection

Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection

“If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”

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Book: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

Source: 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

“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.”

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Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“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.”

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Book:The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle

Source: The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle

“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.”

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Book:Monsieur de Phocas

Source: Monsieur de Phocas

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

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Author:William Shakespeare