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  • Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

    Pain   Joy   Endure  
    Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.382, Baen Books
  • And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

    Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.41, Baen Books
  • O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

    Hate   World   Vex  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [314]
  • Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find.

    Daughter   Art   Queens  
    William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.109, Cambridge University Press
  • Allow not nature more than nature needs.

    Needs   Excess   Lear  
    William Shakespeare, Frank Green (2000). “King Lear”, p.111, Heinemann
  • The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.

    Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.93, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

    Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan
  • Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

    Heart   Unhappy   Mouths  
    William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.838
  • No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.

    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8
  • Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

    Retirement   Age   Care  
    William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.885, Wordsworth Editions
  • Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

    Speak   Albany   Feels  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]
  • Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

    Time   Lasts   Faults  
    William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.151
  • Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

    Excellent   Lows   Gentle  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [274]
  • The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

    Time   Long   Weight  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]
  • This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

    Two   Missing   Tea  
    Margaret Atwood (2009). “Cat's Eye”, p.350, Hachette UK
  • Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

  • So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8
  • I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

    Heart   Causes   Cry  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]
  • You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

    Lying   Cordelia  
    Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam
  • As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

    God   Sports   Religious  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36
  • I was in King Lear with Sir Tom Courtenay at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In fact, that's where I met my husband. I was playing Regan and he was playing Cornwall and together we fell in love plucking out Gloucester's eyes. It was great fun. Everyone assumes that I was Cordelia because I've got blonde hair but I was Regan and they gave me a long auburn wig. It was great, good fun.

    Kings   Husband   Fun  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • [Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

    Eye   May   Reason  
  • Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

    William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, Richard H. Horne (1843). “The Works of Shakespere”, p.369
  • We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

    Life   Firsts   Worst  
    William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat (2003). “King Lear”, p.235, Simon and Schuster
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