Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: King Lear

  • 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

  • Shut Up and Kiss Me

    Shut Up and Kiss Me

    Spare speech.
    Decline your head. This kiss, if it durst speak,
    Would stretch thy spirits up into the air.

    –King Lear,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • 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

  • A Simple Wish

    A Simple Wish

    That good effects may spring from words of love.

    –King Lear
    Act I, Scene i

  • 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