“Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.”
Work
An ageing king makes a capricious decision to divide his realm among his three daughters according to the love they express for him. When the youngest daughter refuses to take part in this charade, she is banished, leaving the king dependent on her manipulative and untrustworthy sisters.
Quotes
Showing 1-4 of 4
William Shakespeare
Canonical work source
“Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.”
“This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.”
“Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.”
“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”