King Lear Quotes

Winter’s not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.

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

We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind to suffer with the body.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

Those happy smilets, that play’d on her ripe lip, seem’d not to know what guests were in her eyes; which parted thence, as pearls from diamonds dropp’d.

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 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 whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!

There was never yet fair woman, but she made mouths in a glass.

There she shook the holy water from her heavenly eyes, and clamour moisten’d.

The worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’