10 Popular dialogues from the play King Lear by William Shakespeare

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare which is regarded as of the greatest creations of the playwright. The play exhibits some great dialogues that give us a lesson about life as well. So, here are 10 most prominent dialogues from King Lear.

1-“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

2-“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.”

3-“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.”

4-“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”

5-“No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:

We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:

When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,

And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,

And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh

At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues

Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,

Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;

And take upon's the mystery of things,

As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,

In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,

That ebb and flow by the moon.”

6-“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!

You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout

Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks!

You sulphurour and thought-executing fires,

Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,

Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,

Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!

Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once

That make ingrateful man!”

7-“O, let me kiss that hand!

KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”

8-“Love's not love

When it is mingled with regards that stand

Aloof from th' entire point.”

9-“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”

10-“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”

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