Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: King Lear

  • 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

  • Extra

    Extra

    Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!

    –King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • Star-Glazing

    Star-Glazing

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

    –King Lear,
    Act I, Scene ii