Lear Quote by George Orwell

“In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.”

— Susanna Clarke

“He wanted a James Lear novel: near to constant episodes of sexual encounters strung together with a bit of mystery, and maybe, for window-dressing,…

— Heidi Cullinan

“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.”

— Nicole Luiken

“How pleasant to know Mr Lear!" / Who has written such volumes of stuff! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer / But a…

— Edward Lear

“But no, Potticary, poor fool, brushed his boots for love of it. He probably had a slave mentality; but had never read enough for…

— Josephine Tey

“If he didn't talk about it, maybe he would forget. He had never wanted to remember. It might not even be a true remembering."…

— George R.R. Martin

“I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.”

— Ken Follett

“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.”

— Shion Miura

“...while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.”

— Louise Penny

“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying.…

— Virginia Woolf

“You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.”

— Alan Moore

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And…

— Wong Kar-Wai