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“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
“No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.”
“I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.”
“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
“O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”
“The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself”
“Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.”
“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
“Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.”
“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”
“When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.”
“To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.”
“Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.”
“Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.”
“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”
“The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.”
“Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.”
“Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.”
“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”
“The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.”
“You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.”
“I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.”