Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: King Lear

  • 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

  • String of Insults

    String of Insults

    A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
    shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
    worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson.

    —King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • November 4

    Use When Necessary

    You are not worth the dust
    which the rude wind blows in your face.

    –King Lear,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • October 15

    Keep Some Things Quiet

    Have more than thou showest,
    Speak less than thou knowest.

    –King Lear,
    Act I, Scene iv

  • Passive Aggressive

    Passive Aggressive

    Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle
    in my corrupted blood… But I’ll not chide thee.

    -King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • September 17

    Best of the Worst

    Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour’d
    When others are more wicked; not being the worst
    Stands in some rank of praise.

    –King Lear,
    Act II, Scene iv