quotes, notes, timelines & more

Home » Quotes » Hamlet » Ophelia, walk you here

Ophelia, walk you here

Polonius
Ophelia, walk you here.—Gracious, so please you,
We will bestow ourselves.  To Ophelia.  Read on this book,
That show of such an exercise may color
Your loneliness. —We are oft to blame in this
(’Tis too much proved), that with devotion’s visage
And pious action we do sugar o’er
The devil himself.

’Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage
And pious action we do sugar o’er
The devil himself.

King, aside
O, ’tis too true!
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.
The harlot’s cheek beautied with plast’ring art
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burden!

Source:
Act 3
Scene 1
Line 48

Source Type:

Spoken by:
,

Themes:
, ,