King Lear Quotes.

1. "When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

2. "Nothing will come of nothing: speak again."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

3. "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

4. "The prince of darkness is a gentleman!"
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

5. "Who is it that can tell me who I am?"
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

6. "Many a true word hath been spoken in jest."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

7. "The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

8. "Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

9. "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear

10. "And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear