Nothingness
Notes on Nothingness
Quotes including the Theme Nothingness
Now, our joy, Although our last and least
Read the QuoteKing Lear
Now, our joy,
Although our last and least, to whose young love
The vines of France and milk of Burgundy
Strive to be interessed, what can you say to draw
A third more opulent than your sisters’? Speak.
Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
Cordelia
Nothing, my lord.
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Edmund, how now? What news?
Read the QuoteGloucester
Edmund, how now? What news?
Edmund
So please your Lordship, none.
He puts a paper in his pocket.
Gloucester
Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?
Edmund
I know no news, my lord.
Gloucester
What paper were you reading?
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Sirrah, I’ll teach thee a speech
Read the QuoteFool
Sirrah, I’ll teach thee a speech.
King Lear
Do.
Fool
Mark it, nuncle:
Have more than thou showest.
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore
And keep in-a-door,
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How now, daughter? What makes that frontlet on?
Read the QuoteKing Lear
How now, daughter? What makes that frontlet on?
Methinks you are too much of late i’ th’ frown.
Fool
Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no
need to care for her frowning. Now thou art an O
without a figure. I am better than thou art now. I
am a Fool.
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