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I have perceived a most faint neglect of late, which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretense and purpose of unkindness. - King Lear (King Lear at I, iv) [Curiosity] Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than the sea-monster. - King Lear (King Lear at I, iv) [Ingratitude] Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child. - King Lear (King Lear at I, iv) [Thankfulness] May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse? - King Lear (Fool at I, iv) [Idiots] Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. - King Lear (Albany at I, iv) [Proverbs] Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer--you gave me nothing for't. - King Lear (Fool at I, iv) [Law] Truth is a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink. - King Lear (Fool at I, iv) [Proverbs] Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. - King Lear (Fool at I, v) [Wisdom] You have heard of the news abroad--I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments? - King Lear (Curan at II, i) [Argument] A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. - King Lear (Kent at II, ii) [Fortune] A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition. - King Lear (Kent at II, ii) [Knavery] (Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' trade. - King Lear (Cornwall & Kent at II, ii) [Tailors] Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain: I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant. - King Lear (Kent at II, ii) [Face] Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! - King Lear (Kent at II, ii) [Language] All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Ingratitude] All's not offense that indiscretion finds And dotage terms so. - King Lear (Goneril at II, iv) [Faults] Bid them come forth and hear me, Or at their chamber door I'll beat the drum Till it cry sleep to death. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Sleep] Fathers that wear rags Do make their children blind, But fathers that bear bags Shall see their children kind. Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to th' poor. - King Lear (Fool at II, iv) [Childhood] Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to th' poor. - King Lear (Fool at II, iv) [Fortune] How in one house Should many people, under two commands, Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible. - King Lear (Regan at II, iv) [Government] Hysterica passion, down, thou climbing sorrow; Thy element's below. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Sorrow] I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Disease] If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Anger] May be he is not well. Infirmity doth neglect all office Whereto our health is bound. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Health] Mend when thou canst, be better at thy leisure; I can be patient, I can stay with Regan, I and my hundred knights. - King Lear (King Lear at II, iv) [Leisure] Displaying page 110 of 187 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 [110] 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187
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