Quotes on Lear

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

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

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

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

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

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

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

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.

We are not the first_x000D_ _x000D_ Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

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

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

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

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

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

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