The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare — or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great,… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest ... — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I was in King Lear with Sir Tom Courtenay at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In fact, that's where I met my… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
