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King Lear

William Shakespeare

Top 10 Best Quotes

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

“Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.”

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.”

“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behavior) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.”

“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”

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