King Lear Quotes

Nothing will come of nothing. – King Lear

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child! – King Lear

I am a man more sinned against than sinning. – King Lear

The wheel is come full circle. – King Lear

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. – King Lear

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – King Lear

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. – King Lear

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. – King Lear

Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man. – King Lear

I will have such revenges on you both that all the world shall— I will do such things— what they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth! – King Lear

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. – King Lear

Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. – King Lear

Love’s not love when it is mingled with regards that stand aloof from the entire point. – King Lear

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so that heaven’s vault should crack. – King Lear

The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious. – King Lear

King Lear Quotes part 2

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! – King Lear

I am a man more sinned against than sinning. – King Lear

I will have such revenges on you both that all the world shall— I will do such things— what they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth! – King Lear

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears. – King Lear

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. – King Lear

Reason in madness! – King Lear

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – King Lear

The worst is not, so long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’ – King Lear

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion. – King Lear

The dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes. – King Lear

We will all laugh at gilded butterflies. – King Lear

I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. – King Lear

We are not the first who with best meaning have incurred the worst. – King Lear

This is the truest poetry or whatever hath pretended may easily be remembered. – King Lear

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least, nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness. – King Lear

I’ll speak a prophecy ere I go. – King Lear

This is the excellent foppery of the world. – King Lear

I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward. – King Lear

So we’ll live, and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies. – King Lear

Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low – an excellent thing in a woman. – King Lear

When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down and ask of thee forgiveness. – King Lear

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child! – King Lear

O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! – King Lear

Let me be a fool, that hath a trade to live. – King Lear

I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, called you children, you owe me no subscription. – King Lear

Welcome to Dover, Edmund. – King Lear

Come, let’s away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i’ th’ cage… – King Lear

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. – King Lear

Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither. – King Lear

I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund. – King Lear

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician seem to see the things thou dost not. – King Lear

Down from the waist they are Centaurs, though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit; beneath is all the fiends. – King Lear

A fox when one has caught her, and such a daughter, should sure to the slaughter, if my cap would buy a halter: so troubled, so many! – King Lear

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – King Lear

Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go, get it ready. – King Lear