Top 37 Shakespeare King Lear Quotes
#1. Come not between the dragon and his wrath. - William Shakespeare King Lear
Matthew Reilly
#2. Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
William Shakespeare
#3. I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.
William Shakespeare
#4. Fool:
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,
a boy's love, or a whore's oath."
King Lear (III, vi, 19-21)
William Shakespeare
#5. I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.
Rob Lowe
#7. From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.
Gordon Smith
#9. Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn't remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt.
Emily St. John Mandel
#11. I gave you all!" screeched Lear, waving a palsied claw at Regan.
"And you took your bloody time giving it, too, you senile old fuck," said Regan.
Christopher Moore
#13. And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.
William Shakespeare
#14. I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd thought I'd work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier - or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier - to King Lear.
Christian McKay
#16. KING LEAR: No.
KENT: Yes.
KING LEAR: No, I say.
KENT: I say, yea.
KING LEAR: No, no, they would not.
KENT: Yes, they have.
KING LEAR: By Jupiter, I swear, no.
KENT: By Juno, I swear, ay.
William Shakespeare
#17. O, let me kiss that hand!
KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
William Shakespeare
#18. I will do such things,
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth.
William Shakespeare
#19. To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote 'King Lear.
Oscar Wilde
#20. I myself do not believe that the Torah is any more or less the revealed Word of God than are Dante's Commedia, Shakespeare's King Lear, or Tolstoy's novels, all works of comparable literary sublimity
Harold Bloom
#21. When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.
Frank Langella
#22. Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant. What place this is, and all the skill I have
Remembers not these garments. Nor I know not
Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me,
For as I am a man, I think this lady
To be my child Cordelia.
William Shakespeare
#24. When we are born, we cry that we are to come to this great stage of fools,' I quoted from Shakespeare's King Lear.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#25. Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
Simon Callow
#26. Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool.
William Shakespeare
#27. I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.
William Shakespeare
#29. Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*
William Shakespeare
#30. Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.
William Shakespeare
#33. As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.
Christopher Hitchens
#34. Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's.
William Shakespeare
#35. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...
{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#36. King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear.
Paul Scofield
#37. I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.
Louis Auchincloss
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