Lear Quotes - Page 2

• Allow not nature more than nature needs.

  William Shakespeare

  Needs, Excess, Cordelia

  William Shakespeare, Frank Green (2000). “King Lear”, p.111, Heinemann

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

  William Shakespeare

  Wrath, Dragons

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. [124]

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• Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Mars, Strive

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.436

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• Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Way

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. 21

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• Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak Less, Advice, Speak

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [132]

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• I am a man more sinned against than sinning

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sin

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [57]

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• Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Clothes, Vices

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Measure for Measure”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Pray you now, forget and forgive.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Memorable, Forgive And Forget

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.305, Classic Books Company

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• The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
  Make instruments to plague us.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Full Circle, Vices

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [172]

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• Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Filth, Goodness

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 38

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• They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Dance, Moon, Light

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dog, Horse

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

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• We are not the first
  Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Firsts, Worst

  William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (2003). “King Lear”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• The rain, it raineth every day.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Rain Water, Raining Day

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [74]

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• Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Has Beens

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.895, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cat, Animal

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Long, Weight

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

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• O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Mad, Heaven

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 5, l. [51]

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• And thou, all-shaking thunder,
  Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
  Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
  That makes ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vaunt, Cracks

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

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• This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Liars, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Dance, Food, Moon

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Eye, Want

  William Shakespeare (2010). “King Lear”, p.111, Broadview Press

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• He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.

  William Shakespeare

  Mad

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 6, l. [20]

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• Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.

  Sam Mendes

  Kings, Commitment, Years

  "Sam Mendes Won't Direct Bond 24". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. March 6, 2013.

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