The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
William Shakespeare, King Lear.
“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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“Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman.”
“Work will drive you crazy if you let it.”
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whi...”
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deepe...”
“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”