When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.
Quotes from King Lear — William Shakespeare
1564–1616 England
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I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
King Lear (1608)
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine.
King Lear (1608)
Thou whoreson Zed! thou unnecessary letter!
King Lear (1608)
This shows you are above
Your justicers; that these our nether crimes
So speedily can venge!
King Lear (1608)
May be he is not well:
Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound.
King Lear (1608)
Henceforth I'll bear
Affliction till it do cry out itself,
Enough, enough, and die.
King Lear (1608)
We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter.
King Lear (1608)
The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious.
King Lear (1608)
Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
King Lear (1608)
Know, my name is lost;
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit.
King Lear (1608)
All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall
On her ungrateful top.
King Lear (1608)
Proper deformity seems not in the fiend
So horrid as in woman.
King Lear (1608)
You are old;
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
King Lear (1608)
Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
King Lear (1608)
She hath tied
Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture here.
King Lear (1608)
Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne'er turns the key to the poor.
King Lear (1608)
When the mind's free,
The body's delicate.
King Lear (1608)
The stars above us govern our conditions.
King Lear (1608)
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
Half my love with him, half my care and duty.
King Lear (1608)
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