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King Lear Quotes
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne’er turns the key to th’poor.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest, Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
All dark and comfortless.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say ‘This is the worst.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
He hath always but slightly, known himself…King Lear
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
През дрипите прозира всеки грях, а мантии и шуби скриват всичко!
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t’ unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel, Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods, Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is’t thou say’st? Her voice was ever soft.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune’s blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
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