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King Lear Quotes

King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure. Andrew Coyle Bradley
No matter how many times we read "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their lapdogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father's timely tear. Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds... Vladimir Nabokov
William Shakespeare quote: "Speak what we feel, Not what we ought to say-- "King Lear" by..."
Speak what we feel, Not what we ought to say-- "King Lear" by William Shakespeare William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare quote: "O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it..."
O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. William Shakespeare
As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash. Christopher Hitchens
He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees; some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae. Whisk. Whisk—and where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus? Whisk—and those specks of antique dirt called Athens and Rome, Jerusalem and the Middle Kingdom—all were gone. Whisk—the place where Italy had been empty. Whisk, the... Aldous Huxley
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either. Ludwig Wittgenstein
David Crystal quote: "As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become..."
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. David Crystal
Peter Ustinov quote: "I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King..."
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. Peter Ustinov
I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy. David Wenham
Sarah Bernhardt quote: "The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to..."
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. Sarah Bernhardt
In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out of it for a few brief hours every inch a king. Zaccheus climbs up a sycamore tree a crook and climbs down a saint. Paul sets out a hatchet man for the Pharisees and comes back a fool for Christ. Frederick Buechner

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