Ophelia Hear it!

Ophelia Definition

Ophelia (ō fēl)

noun

  1. a feminine name
  2. in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Polonius's daughter, in love with Hamlet

Etymology: prob. < Gr ōphelia, a help, succor

Ophelia Quotes

   To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens