Lear Quotes

• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Sports, Religious

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

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• And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, May, Worst

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 27

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• Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Unhappy, Mouths

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.838

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• The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Strange

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [70]

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• I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Causes, Cry

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Kissing, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Lear: Tragedies by William Shakespeare”, p.163, 谷月社

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• No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Patterns

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [37]

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• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fathers Day, Kings

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [312]

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• You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Dust, Wind

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 30

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• We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Moon, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2008). “King Lear: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Memorable, Fool

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [187]

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 9

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• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Men, Fire

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
  Against their father, fool me not so much
  To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
  And let not women's weapons, water drops,
  Stain my man's cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Anger

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Lasts, Faults

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.151

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• You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Age

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [275]

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• The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Sea, Owl

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 1 (1871)

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• Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings And Love, Regard, Aloof

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.328

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• You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.

  Bill Lear

  Cadillacs

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• Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Buttons, Praying

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [307]

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• Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak, Albany, Feels

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

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• The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

  Bill Lear

  Life, Exercise, Design

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• This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Fool, Cold

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.791

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• When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Woe, Misery

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare : accurately printed from the text of the corrected copy left by the late George Steevens: with a series of engravings, from original designs of Henry Fuseli, and a selection of explanatory and historical notes, from the most eminent commentators; a history of the stage, a life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.419

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