Lear Quotes by William Shakespeare

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

— William Shakespeare

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.

— William Shakespeare

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

— William Shakespeare

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

— William Shakespeare

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

— William Shakespeare

O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

— William Shakespeare

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

— William Shakespeare

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

— William Shakespeare

And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes…

— William Shakespeare

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

— William Shakespeare

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou…

— William Shakespeare

Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar,…

— William Shakespeare

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no…

— William Shakespeare

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make…

— William Shakespeare

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

— William Shakespeare

The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself

— William Shakespeare

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

— William Shakespeare

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest ...

— William Shakespeare

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

— William Shakespeare

If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch…

— William Shakespeare