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I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. - King Lear (Gloucester at III, vii) [Perseverance] I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors You should not ruffle thus. - King Lear (Gloucester at III, vii) [Hospitality] As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; They kill us for their sport. - King Lear (Gloucester at IV, i) [Gods] Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others. - King Lear (Edgar at IV, i) [Business] The worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.' - King Lear (Edgar at IV, i) [Misfortune : Worst] (Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face. - King Lear (Goneril & Albany at IV, ii) [Worth] Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punished Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners in our noiseless land, With plumed helm thy state begins to threat, Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries 'Alack, why does he so?'] - King Lear (Goneril at IV, ii) [Cowardice] This shows you are above, You justicers, that these our nether crimes So speedily can avenge. - King Lear (Albany at IV, ii) [Justice] It is the stars, The stars above us govern our conditions; Else one self mate and make could not beget Such different issues. - King Lear (Kent at IV, iii) [Stars] Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears Were like, a better way: those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropped. - King Lear (Gentleman at IV, iii) [Expression : Eyes] There she shook The holy water from her heavenly eyes, And clamor moistened; then away she started To deal with grief alone. - King Lear (Gentleman at IV, iii) [Tears] You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears Were like, a better way: those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropped. - King Lear (Gentleman at IV, iii) [Smiles] Our foster nurse of nature is repose, The which he lacks. That to provoke in him Are many simples operative, whose power Will close the eye of anguish. - King Lear (Doctor at IV, iv) [Repose] Ay, every inch a king. - King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi) [Royalty] Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. - King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi) [Politics] Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.' - King Lear (Gloucester at IV, vi) [Affliction] Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office. - King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi) [Authority : Dogs] Thou old unhappy traitor, Briefly thyself remember. - King Lear (Oswald at IV, vi) [Memory] Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. - King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi) [Apparel : Proverbs : Sin] Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. - King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi) [Proverbs : Sin] Thy life's a miracle. - King Lear (Edgar at IV, vi) [Life] When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. - King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi) [Birth : Life : Tears] You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please. - King Lear (Gloucester at IV, vi) [Suicide] Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. - King Lear (King Lear at IV, vii) [Age] Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald me like molten lead. - King Lear (King Lear at IV, vii) [Affliction] Displaying page 112 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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