23 quotes found
“All dark and comfortless.”
“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
“Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!”
“He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear”
“Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to th'poor.”
“Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman.”
“And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
“This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.”
“Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.”
“Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.”
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“That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat...”
“GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows,Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.”
“But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.”
“Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.”
“Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.”
“Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink...”
“Hes mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horses health, a boys love, or a whores oath.”
“An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!”
“The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.”
