King Lear Quote by George Orwell Download Open image ““He would read King Lear and forget this filthy century.”” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare King Lear
“In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“How pleasant to know Mr Lear!" / Who has written such volumes of stuff! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer / But a… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“...while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }” — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well… — Virginia Wade Copy Share Image
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as either love… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in this respect.… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
