Movie Quotes for King+Lear

King Lear: How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a
  thankless child!

King Lear: I know you do not love me, For your sisters have, as I
  remember, done me wrong. You have some cause; they have not.
Cordelia: No cause, no cause.

King Lear: Ay, every inch a king.

King Lear: You do me wrong to take me out of the grave. Thou art a
  soul in bliss.

King Lear: Blow winds and crack your cheeks!

Gloucester: The trick of that voice I do well remember. Ist not the
  King?
King Lear: Aye, every inch a king.

Fool: If thou wert my fool. Nuncle, Id have thee beaten for being
  old before thy time.
King Lear: Hows that?
Fool: Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

Gloucester: O, let me kiss thar hand!
King Lear: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

The Great Writer: For words are one thing, and reality, sweet
  reality, is another thing, and between them is no thing.

Kent: Fellow, I know thee.
Oswald: What dost thou know me for?
Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
  shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy
  worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson,
  glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue;
  one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of
  good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave,
  beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch;
  one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou denyst the
  least syllable of thy addition.

Gloucester: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us
  for their sport.

Thurlow: [to Dr. Willis] King Lear; do you think that is wise?
Dr. Willis: I did not know what the play was about.

Lear: A man woke up one morning and found hed lost his voice. So he
  went to look for it, and when he came to the wood there was the
  bird whod stolen it. It was singing beautifully and the man said,
  “Now I sing so beautifully I shall be rich and famous”. He put the
  bird in a cage and said, “When I open my mouth wide you must sing”.
  Then he went to the king and said, “I will sing your majestys
  praises”. But when he opened his mouth the bird could only groan
  and cry because it was in a cage, and the king had the man whipped.
  The man took the bird home, but his family couldnt stand the
  birds groaning and crying and they left him. So in the end the man
  took the bird back to the wood and let it out of the cage. But the
  man believed the king had treated him unjustly and he kept saying
  to himself, “The kings a fool” and as the bird still had the mans
  voice, it kept singing this all over the wood and soon the other
  birds learned it. The next time the king went hunting he was
  surprised to hear all the birds singing, “The kings a fool”. He
  caught the bird whod started it and pulled out its feathers, broke
  its wings and nailed it to a branch as a warning to all the other
  birds. The forest was silent. And just as the bird had the mans
  voice the man now had the birds pain. He ran round silently waving
  his head and stamping his feet, and he was locked up for the rest
  of his life in a cage.

Lear: I remember some of my dream. There was a king and he had a
  fountain in his garden. It was as big as the sea. One night the
  fountain howled and in the morning the king went to look at it. The
  servants emptied it and under the sea they found a desert. The king
  looked in the sand and there was a helmet and sword.

Mr. Edward Magorium: [to Molly, about dying] When King Lear dies in
  Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? Hes written "He
  dies." Thats all, nothing more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no
  brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential work
  of dramatic literature is "He dies." It takes Shakespeare, a
  genius, to come up with "He dies." And yet every time I read those
  two words, I find myself overwhelmed with dysphoria. And I know
  its only natural to be sad, but not because of the words "He
  dies." but because of the life we saw prior to the words. [pause,
  walks over to Molly] Ive lived all five of my acts, Mahoney, and I
  am not asking you to be happy that I must go. Im only asking that
  you turn the page, continue reading... and let the next story
  begin. And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in
  all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died."
Molly Mahoney: [starting to sob] I love you.
Mr. Edward Magorium: I love you, too. [picks Molly up, sighs heavily]
  Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

Garth Marenghi: Ive always loved the great tragedies, King Lear, The
  Poseidon Adventure, Superman 2.

Paige: We did King Lear, now were on the sonnets. Next its Hamlet,
  which is about a whiny prince from Denmark. What does that have to
  do with reality?
Eddie: More than you think.
Paige: Well youre from Denmark. Do you even have princes?
Eddie: Yes, I think we do.

Mr. Spock: The red giant is named Lear after King Lear. The blue
  dwarf is Iago.
Lt. Pavel Chekov: Hm. Somebody didnt know their Shakespeare very
  well. A Russian wouldnt make that mistake.
Mr. Spock: It is a metafore, Mr. Chekov. The red giant is a very old
  star. The blue-white dwarf is pulling the fire out of it. It will
  take thousands of centuries, of course.

Hobie: They still talk about my portrayal of King Lear. I played it
  with a limp.

Blackadder: [trying to be friendlier towards Shakespeare at their
  second encounter] Im a very big fan Bill.
William Shakespeare: Thank you.
Blackadder: Keep up the good work. King Lear... very funny.

Dennis Finch: Jack, that was Ally. Something about King Lear.
Maya Gallo: King Lear?
Dennis Finch: You know, to snore or not to snore?

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair: Last time I gave an interview, they told me
  to relax and say what I felt, ten minutes after broadcast I got
  transferred to an outpost so far off the star maps, you couldnt
  find it with a hunting dog and a ouija board
Michael Garibaldi: Dont sweat it. Just be that charming effervescent
  commander weve all come to know and love. Whats the worst that
  could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the rim and I get
  promoted to captain. I dont see a problem here.
Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair: [quotes King Lear] How sharper than a
  serpents tooth.

Sir John Glutton: How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a
  thankless child! William Shakespeare, Hamlet, you know.
Jem Clayton: King Lear!
Sir John Glutton: If I say its Hamlet, then its Hamlet! You
  presumptuous young puppy!

Inspector Boot: Was that dialogue from King Lear?
Peregrine Devlin: Yes. A remarkable performace. He was overacting as
  usual, but he knew how to make an exit.

Peter Marshall: In the Shakespearean play "King Lear", King Lear had
  three of them - Goneril, Cordelia, and Regan? Who were they?
Paul Lynde: King Lear had Goneril?