Lear Quotes
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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
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Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.
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I am a man more sinned against than sinning
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Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.
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What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.
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Allow not nature more than nature needs.
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No bodyguards, no fuckin' Lear jets, no fuckin' tour bus, no 50 people following you around every day. We all had to go away from each other and the music industry for a while.
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This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
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The rain, it raineth every day.
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You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
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Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.
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Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
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When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
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Pray you now, forget and forgive.
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Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
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O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.
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The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
