Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: King Lear

  • June 3

    Mercurial Temperament

    An admirable evasion of man,
    to lay his disposition to the charge of a star.

    –King Lear,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • Revenge TBD

    Revenge TBD

    I will have such revenges…I will do such things-
    What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be
    The terrors of the earth!

    –King Lear,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • clueless

    Clueless

    Yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.

    –King Lear,
    Act I, Scene i

  • Stand Back

    Stand Back

    Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

    –King Lear,
    Act I, Scene i

  • April 23

    Let Well Enough Alone

    Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

    –King Lear,
    Act I, Scene iv

  • February 12

    Keep Hope

    The worst is not
    So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”

    –King Lear,
    Act IV, Scene i

  • December 11

    Huff Shuffle

    How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
    To say to me that thou art out of breath?
    The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
    Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.

    –Romeo and Juliet,
    Act IV, Scene iii