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

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

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back. — Edward Lear

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. — Norman 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

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel? — Bill Lear

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care. — Norman Lear

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 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

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 in doubt, discuss the weather. Some things never change. — Emma Lear

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case. — Norman Lear

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

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

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

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play. — Norman Lear

How pleasant to know Mr Lear! / Who has written such volumes of stuff! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer / But a few think him pleasant enough. — Edward Lear

To be human is necessarily to be a vulnerable risk-taker; to be a courageous human is to be good at it — Jonathan Lear

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray. — Edward 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 even
The natural fool of fortune. — William Shakespeare

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it. — Norman Lear

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

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think. — Norman Lear

In a sport that demands compulsion, sometimes the hardest task is having the confidence to rest. — Chris Lear

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan. — Norman Lear

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out. — Bill 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

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

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. — Peter O'Toole

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat ... — Edward Lear

A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans. — Frances Lear

I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you. — Dave Finkel

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality. — 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

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. — Norman Lear

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina. — Edward 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

It's a fact the whole world knows,
That Pobbles are happier without their toes. — Edward Lear

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house ... my house was more akin to Norman Lear. — Michael P. Naughton

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole. — Edward Lear

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

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs. — Norman Lear

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf. — Norman Lear

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

I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them? — Amanda Lear

When I want to entertain entertainers, I call Jason Randal! — Norman Lear

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 not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst. — William Shakespeare

In this nation, leadership is dollars. — Norman Lear

I just let it be hard while it is hard without going crazy fo it to get easy. — Patricia 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

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet. — Mason Cooley

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

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. — Norman Lear

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

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

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

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written. — Noel Coward

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

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history. — Norman Lear

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

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. The moon. The moon. They danced by the light of the moon. — Edward Lear

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

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny