Cordelia: Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
classic lines from the play King Lear, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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See William Shakespeare about time
Edgar [Aside.]: And worse I may be yet; the worst is not
So long as I can say ‘This is the worst.’
classic line from the play King Lear, Act IV, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Kent: It is the stars, the stars above us, govern our conditions. Else one self mate and mate could not beget such different issues.
classic line from the play King Lear, Act IV, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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See also William Shakespeare about worry, or about peace
Lear: Where the greater malady is fix’d, the lesser is scarce felt.
classic line from the play King Lear, Act III, Scene 4, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Lear: You must bear with me.
Pray you now, forget and forgive. I am old and foolish.
line from King Lear, Act IV, Scene 7 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Curan: You have heard of the news abroad;
I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet
But ear-kissing arguments?
line from the play King Lear, Act II, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Lear: O Regan, Goneril,
Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all—
Oh, that way madness lies. Let me shun that.
No more of that.
line from the play King Lear, Act III, Scene 4, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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See also William Shakespeare about heart
Lear: No, I will be the pattern of all patience.
I will say nothing.
line from the play King Lear, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare in King Lear
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Lear: When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
line from the play King Lear, Act IV, Scene 6, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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