Lear Quotes
Fool: If thou wert my fool. Nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time.
King Lear: How's that?
Fool: Thou shoulds't not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
King Lear: How's that?
Fool: Thou shoulds't not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
Movie: Lear
Lear: My enemies will not destroy my work! I gave my life to these people. I've seen armies on their hands and knees in blood, insane women feeding dead children at their empty breasts, dying men spitting blood at me with their last breath, our brave young men in tears... But I could bear all this! When I'm dead my people will live in freedom and peace and remember my name, no, venerate it! They are my sheep and if one of them is lost, I'd take fire to hell to bring him out. I loved and cared for all my children, and now you've sold them to their enemies! [shoots the untried prisoner condemned on the spot]
Movie: Lear
Lear: I knew it would come to this! I knew you were malicious! I built my wall against *you* as well as my other enemies! You talk of marriage? You have murdered your family. There will be no more children. Your husbands are impotent. That's not an empty insult. You wrote? My spies know more than that! You will get nothing from this crime. You have perverted lusts. They won't be satisfied. It *is* perverted to want your pleasure where it makes others suffer. I pity the men who share your beds. I've watched you scheme and plan - they'll lie by you when you dream! Where will your ambition end? You will throw old men from their coffins, break children's legs, pull the hair from old women's heads, make young men walk the streets in beggary and cold while their wives grow empty and despair. I am ashamed of my tears! You have done this to me. The people will judge between you and me.
Movie: Lear