King Lear Quotes
- O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare
- A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than… — Thomas Jefferson
- King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction,… — Andrew Coyle Bradley