Quotes of the Week - July 15, 2008:
"You are my lord, you're my darling, you're my orgy, my charming
prince." -- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's tribute to husband, Nicholas
Sarkozy, president of France.
"Barack, he's talking down to black people. I want to cut his nuts
off." -- Jesse Jackson, US Democrat and civil rights activist,
about his party's presidential candidate Barack Obama.
"Many things that happened in the jungle we have to leave in the
jungle." -- Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, refuses to discuss
certain details about her six years of captivity in jungles of Colombia.
"Europe is a family of 27 nations, we can't leave anyone behind."
-- Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, urging European Parliament to
speed negotiations over Lisbon Treaty.
Authors:
Shakespeare - King Lear Quotes, Famous King Lear Quotations
I
am a man
More sinned against than sinning. King Lear, 3. 2
Oh,
that way madness lies; let me shun that. King Lear, 3. 4
Poor
naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? King Lear, 3. 4
Take
physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. King Lear, 3. 4
Pillicock
sat on Pillicock-hill:
Halloo, halloo, loo, loo! King Lear, 3. 4
Out-paramoured
the Turk. King Lear, 3. 4
Keep
thy foot
out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen
from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. King Lear, 3. 4
Thou
art the thing itself:
unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare,
forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings!
come unbutton here. King Lear, 3. 4
'Tis
a naughty night to swim in. King Lear, 3. 4
This
is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins
at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives
the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the
hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the
poor creature of earth. King Lear, 3. 4