King Lear Quotes
Gloucester: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.
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Gloucester: The trick of that voice I do well remember. Is't not the King?
King Lear: Aye, every inch a king.
King Lear: Aye, every inch a king.
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Lear: 1. I have full cause of weeping; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!
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Cordelia: 1. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.
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Lear: So young, and so untender? Lear:
Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true.
Lear: Let it be so; - thy truth, then, be thy dower.
Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true.
Lear: Let it be so; - thy truth, then, be thy dower.
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Cordelia: Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides
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Regan: 1. Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.
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Edmund: 1. Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops Got 'tween asleep and wake?
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Gloucester: 1. We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves.
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Edmund: 1. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, 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 whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
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Fool: 1. Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink.
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Lear: 1. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child Than the sea-monster!
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Kent: 1. I have seen better faces in my time, Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.
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Regan: 1. O, sir, you are old; Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine: you should be rul'd and led By some discretion, that discerns your state Better than you yourself.
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Lear: 1. Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's.
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Lear: 1. You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir 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!
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Lear: 1. I will do such things, What they are, yet I know not; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
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Fool: 1. He that has and a little tiny wit, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, Must make content with his fortunes fit, Though the rain it raineth every day.
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Lear: 1. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
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