Lear Quotes
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Lear Quotes & Sayings
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The gods are fair, and they use our little vices to punish us
— William Shakespeare
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
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
— Edward Lear
The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself
— 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
Vice is punished, but virtue is not rewarded
— George Orwell
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
They danced by the light of the moon.
— Edward Lear
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
I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.
— Amanda Lear
Fish fiddle de-dee!
— Edward Lear
I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.
— Hunter S. Thompson
To be human is necessarily to be a vulnerable risk-taker; to be a courageous human is to be good at it
— Jonathan Lear
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 am evenThe natural fool of fortune. — William Shakespeare
What you need is an idea.
— Bill Lear
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
— Liam Neeson
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
I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning.
— Julie White
In a sport that demands compulsion, sometimes the hardest task is having the confidence to rest.
— Chris Lear
Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.
— Frances Lear
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.
— Edward Lear
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
— Peter O'Toole
A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.
— Frances Lear
I am a man more sinned against than sinning" (Lear, 9.60).
— James Shapiro
You can't stand up in a Cadillac, either.
— Bill Lear
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
— William Shakespeare
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
I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house ... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.
— Michael P. Naughton
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.
— Brand Blanshard
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
— David Crystal
When something is over, it is over ...
— Norman Lear
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
— Nick Hornby
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
— Norman Lear
Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'
— Donald Wildmon
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
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
— David Ogden Stiers
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
— Edward Lear
I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.
— William Shakespeare
The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.
— Bill Lear
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
— Norman Lear
And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst. — William Shakespeare
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
— Norman Lear
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights;
— Edward Lear
Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?
— Edward Lear
Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} — Carl Friedrich Gauss
If it looks good, it will fly good.
— Bill Lear
When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.
— Ryan Murphy
Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.
— William Shakespeare
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
— William Butler Yeats
They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
— Edward Lear
And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?
— Edward Lear
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
— Norman Lear
We all remember the fool who, almost alone, was true to Lear, but, then, of course, he was a fool.
— William Shakespeare
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
