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O that I were a mockery king of snow
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke
To melt myself away in water drops! — William Shakespeare

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

You have but mistook me all the while ... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king? — 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

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man! — William Shakespeare

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

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm — William Shakespeare

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me. — William Shakespeare

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

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance. — William Shakespeare

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

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.-King Claudius — William Shakespeare

A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare

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

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court. — William Shakespeare

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt. — William Shakespeare

And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2 — William Shakespeare

I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause. — William Shakespeare

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

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King? — William Shakespeare

KING CLAUDIUS
How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
HAMLET
Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. — William Shakespeare

Love? His affections do not that way tend — William Shakespeare

KING EDWARD IV:
To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
LADY GREY:
To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison. — William Shakespeare

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of. — William Shakespeare

If you be King, why should not I succeed? — William Shakespeare

A king of infinite space — William Shakespeare

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. — William Shakespeare

Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king. — Josephine Hull

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. — Alex Cox

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance:
No king of England, if not king of France — William Shakespeare

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

Time is the king of men. — William Shakespeare

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

I had forgot myself. Am I not king?
Awake, thou coward Majesty, thou sleepest!
Is not the king's name twenty thousand names? — William Shakespeare

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. — William Shakespeare

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. — William Shakespeare

And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mewed up ... — William Shakespeare

You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those. — William Shakespeare

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

Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed King; — 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

There's such divinity doth hedge a king. That treason doth but peep to what it would. — William Shakespeare

Pour on, I will endure. — William Shakespeare

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

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. — William Shakespeare

What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Choose Caesar for their king. — William Shakespeare

So doth the greater glory dim the less:
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by. — William Shakespeare

Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins, lay on the King! — 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

O King, be loyal to the royal within you. — William Shakespeare

Besides, our nearness to the King in love
Is near the hate of those love not the King. — William Shakespeare

KING HENRY VI:
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so;
For what is in this world but grief and woe? — William Shakespeare

For a quart of Ale is a dish for a king. — William Shakespeare

But did not Shakespeare say a man can smile, and smile, and be a villain? — Stephen King

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that. — Stephen King

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. — William Shakespeare

The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. — William Shakespeare

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. — Harold Bloom

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

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king. — William Shakespeare

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

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

And with a little pin bores through his castle wall and farewell king. — William Shakespeare

You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[ ... ] What cares these roarers for the name of king? — William Shakespeare

KING RICHARD III:
I am in
So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin. — William Shakespeare

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

I hope they will not come upon us now.
King Henry: We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs. — William Shakespeare

...Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter: in sleep a king but waking no such matter. — William Shakespeare

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid! — William Shakespeare

The presence of a king engenders love
Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends. — William Shakespeare

I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space. — William Shakespeare

Though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy — William Shakespeare

Sleep is the overlooked hero and the poor man's physician. Shakespeare — Stephen King

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd. — William Shakespeare

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

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom. — William Shakespeare

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death. — William Shakespeare

The king's name is a tower of strength. — William Shakespeare