William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain."
Hamlet And Ophelia quotes
Hamlet And Ophelia
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"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."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"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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"I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."
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"There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow."
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"The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action."
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"A man can smile and smile and be a villain."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"You Jig, you amble, and you lisp."
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"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."
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"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears."
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"I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."
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"From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"
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"I will speak daggers to her, but use none."
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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."
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"You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances."
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"Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."
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"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."
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"To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life."
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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."
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"What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?"
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"Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee."
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"'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of."
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