Shakespeare King Quotes

#1. Come not between the dragon and his wrath. - William Shakespeare King Lear

Matthew Reilly

#2. King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Harold Bloom

#3. 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

#4. Katherine. Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is like me.
KING HENRY. An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
KATHERINE. Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?

William Shakespeare

#5. 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

#6. I am even
The natural fool of fortune.

William Shakespeare

#7. 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

#8. 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. You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[ ... ] What cares these roarers for the name of king?

William Shakespeare

#10. The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

Emily St. John Mandel

#11. Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one.

Michael Montoure

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.

Louis Auchincloss

#16. 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

#17. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...

{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#18. Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.

Josephine Hull

#19. 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

#20. Pour on, I will endure.

William Shakespeare

#21. The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

William Shakespeare

#22. 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

#23. The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

Alex Cox

#24. Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

Simon Callow

#25. 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

#26. Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)
[Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]

William Shakespeare

#27. My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

#28. And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2

William Shakespeare

#29. 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