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Shakespeare 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

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

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me. — John Cleese

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

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it. — Henry Hudson

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

You poor thing. I wish I could've been there to save you."
"You did save me. You save me every single day. — Portia De Rossi

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

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust. — Mitchell Reiss

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I race you, Ryles," he says in a voice that's implacable and unwavering amidst the swirling chaos. — K. Bromberg

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers. — John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

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 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