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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] [To stand against the deep, dread-bolted thunder? In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick cross lightning to watch, poor perdu, With this thin helm?] - King Lear (Cordelia at IV, vii) [Thunder] A dog's obeyed in office. - King Lear (King Lear at IV,vi) [Authority] Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive. To take the widow Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril; And hardly shall I carry out my side, Her husband being alive. - King Lear (Edmund at V, i) [Choice] He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven And fire us hence like foxes. - King Lear (King Lear at V, iii) [Constancy] Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. - King Lear (King Lear at V, iii) [Proverbs : Voice] If there be more, more woeful, hold it in, For I am almost ready to dissolve, Hearing of this. - King Lear (Albany at V, iii) [Suffering] Jesters do oft prove prophets. - King Lear (Regan at V, iii) [Jesting : Prophets] Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope. - King Lear (Edgar at V, iii) [Treason] O our lives' sweetness, That we the pain of death would hourly die Rather than die at once! - King Lear (Edgar at V, iii) [Death] Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. - King Lear (Albany at V, iii) [Speech] The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. - King Lear (Edgar at V, iii) [Gods : Proverbs : Vice] Displaying page 112 of 186 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
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