King Lear Fool Quotes & Sayings

Clive remained behind Simon's knees.
Simon's Knees . . .
What a great name for a band. — Alice Clayton

Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was no other solace to be had. — Lisa S. Lewis

I am even
The natural fool of fortune. — William Shakespeare

You're in love, my old friend, and that is the downfall of all good men. — Christine Feehan

Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. — William Shakespeare

The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is actually but one aspect of this protean creature. Madmen, hunchbacks, amputees, and other abnormals were once considered natural clowns; they were elected to fulfill a comic role which could allow others to see them as ludicrous rather than as terrible reminders of the forces of disorder in the world. But sometimes a cheerless jester was required to draw attention to this same disorder, as in the case of King Lear's morbid and honest fool, who of course was eventually hanged, and so much for his clownish wisdom. Clowns have often had ambiguous and sometimes contradictory roles to play. ("The Last Feast Of The Harlequin") — Thomas Ligotti

Fool:
"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,
a boy's love, or a whore's oath."
King Lear (III, vi, 19-21) — William Shakespeare

When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty — Joan Halifax

In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out of it for a few brief hours every inch a king. Zaccheus climbs up a sycamore tree a crook and climbs down a saint. Paul sets out a hatchet man for the Pharisees and comes back a fool for Christ. — Frederick Buechner

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. — Cormac McCarthy

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression. — Arthur Smith

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You don't want people to look at something and think that was a fantastic special effect. — Gale Anne Hurd