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King Lear Shakespeare 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

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

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 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

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

If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge. — Jonathan Tropper

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

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves. — Anthony Collins

Pour on, I will endure. — William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all. — David Mamet

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

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. — Clare Boothe Luce

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company. — Tamim Iqbal

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

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. — E. Stanley Jones

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds. — Pico Iyer

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

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere. — Jon Ronson

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

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

I believe the stars can affect human lives, particularly by providing employment for thousands of astrologers. — Ashleigh Brilliant

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

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. — Saul Bellow

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

Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong. — Steven Jackson

What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife. — Ian McEwan

If you wish to find the strength of being, read the Holy Bible. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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