"And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst."
- William Shakespeare
"To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear."
- Oscar Wilde
"We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure in the endless repetition of the beautiful, poetic, and absurd. We find, in all the..."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
"I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' never s..."
- Vladimir Nabokov
"Frequent suggestions were made during the course of the trial that the motives of the donor and the donees alike, in carrying out this transaction, were to escape death duties. I feel constrained to d..."
- A. Laurence Polak
"LEAR: ...yet you see how this world goes.GLOS.: I see it feelingly."
"Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
"Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty, beyond waht can be valued, rich or rare; no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; as much ..."
"I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love."
"Pour on, I will endure."