Let Well Enough Alone
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
–King Lear,
Act I, Scene iv

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
–King Lear,
Act I, Scene iv

The worst is not
So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”
–King Lear,
Act IV, Scene i

You are not worth the dust
which the rude wind blows in your face.
–King Lear,
Act IV, Scene ii

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest.
–King Lear,
Act I, Scene iv

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

Jesters do oft prove prophets.
–King Lear,
Act V, Scene iii

O, that way madness lies; let me shun that!
No more of that.
— King Lear,
Act III, Scene iv