Quotes from King Lear — William Shakespeare
1564–1616 England
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
'Tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you gave me nothing for 't.
He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.
This is the excellent foppery of the world.
A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.
We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
Keep * * * thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats.
For they are yet but ear-kissing arguments.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
All's not offence that indiscretion finds.
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip,
When grief hath mates.
When we are born we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
They told me I was everything; ’tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
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