Quotes about deception in love

This becomes evident in the first few lines. We first learn of the empty words of Goneril and Regan as well as their hatred for their father, King Lear. This becomes the center of the play and also leads to the madness that the king suffers from. The first words that Goneril speaks are totally empty and are the complete opposite of what she really feels. The same goes for her sister, Regan, who is plotting against her father as well. She says that she feels the same way as her sister and expresses how Goneril has named her very deed of love. She goes even farther to say:.

But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs? O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive. With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. Shut, shut the door, good John! Smooth runs the water, where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbors treason.