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King Lear Quotes & Sayings

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The gods are fair, and they use our little vices to punish us — William Shakespeare

I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan.
"And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck," said Regan. — Christopher Moore

If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you. — Ian McKellen

O, let me kiss that hand!
KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare

While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear — Jon Krakauer

The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself — William Shakespeare

I will do such things,
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. — William Shakespeare

Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's. — William Shakespeare

LEAR: ... yet you see how this world goes.
GLOS.: I see it feelingly. — William Shakespeare

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that. — Rainn Wilson

I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. — Louis Auchincloss

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. — William Shakespeare

Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. — William Shakespeare

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding. — Peter Ackroyd

So young, my lord, and true. — William Shakespeare

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.' — Maeve Binchy

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies. — Robert Wilson

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. — Peter Ustinov

Fool:
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,
a boy's love, or a whore's oath."
King Lear (III, vi, 19-21) — William Shakespeare

The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.' — Ashley Jensen

I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear. — Ian Holloway

I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish. — Max Von Sydow

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...

{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} — Carl Friedrich Gauss

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been. — Paul Scofield

He hath always but slightly, known himself ... King Lear — William Shakespeare

Come not between the dragon and his wrath. - William Shakespeare King Lear — Matthew Reilly

When we are born, we cry that we are to come to this great stage of fools,' I quoted from Shakespeare's King Lear. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Pour on, I will endure. — William Shakespeare

My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas. — Ben Mendelsohn

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness. — William Shakespeare

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored. — Emily St. John Mandel

With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? — William Shakespeare

I am even
The natural fool of fortune. — William Shakespeare

In typical circumstances, to have children who won't care for you in your dotage is to be King Lear. Disability changes the reciprocity equation. — Andrew Solomon

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. — Liam Neeson

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' — Simon Callow

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell. — Steven-Elliot Altman

As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash. — Christopher Hitchens

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. — Christopher Moore

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. — Sarah Bernhardt

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. — David Crystal

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow. — Nick Hornby

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less. — William Shakespeare

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst. — William Shakespeare