Character Quotes Flashcards
Lear
“Which of you shall we say doth love us most”
“Nothing can come of nothing. Speak again”
“Daughter, do not make me mad”
“I gave you all”
“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
“Is man no more but this?”
“Here, wipe it first; it smells of mortality”
“For as I am a man, I think this lady / to be my child Cordelia”
“Come not between the dragon and his wrath”
Cordelia
“(Aside) What shall Cordelia do? Love and be silent”
“I love your majesty according to my bond, nor more nor less”
“Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides”
“Repair those violent harms that my two sisters / Have in their reverence made!”
Regan
“I find she names the very deed of love- / Only she came short”
“What needs one?”
“Pluck out his eyes”
“This sickness grows upon me”
Gonoril
“Sir, I do love you more than words can weird the matter”
“You see how full of changes his age is”
“Milk-livered man”
Kent
“Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least, / nor are those empty hearted whose low sounds/ Reverbs no hollowness”
“See better, Lear, and let me still remain / the true blank of thine eye”
“Enter the Earl of Kent, disguised”
“I will not sleep my lord, until I have delivered your letter”
“Why, madam, if I was your fathers dog / you could not use me so”
“Fortune, good night; / smile; once more turn thy wheel”
“All the power of his wits have given way to impatience”
“The stars above us govern our conditions”
“I have a journey to go, sir, shortly to go: / my master calls, and I must not say no”
The Fool
“Truth is a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped out when Lady the beach may stand by the fire and stink”
“All the other titles thou has given away. That thou was born with”
“Thou madest thy daughters thy mother”
“Lear’s shadow?”
“The hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long / that it had its head bitten off by its young”
Albany
“Humanity must perforce prey on itself, / Like monsters of the deep”
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say”
Gloucester
“If our father would sleep till I waked, you should enjoy his revenue”
“Abhorred villain, unnatural, detested, brutish villain”
“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us”
“I have no way, and therefore want no eyes. I stumbled when I saw”
“Away and let me die”
Edgar
“Some villain hath done me wrong”
“Edgar I nothing am”
“Tom’s a-cold”
“Who alone suffers, suffers most i’th’ mind,”
“(Aside) The worst is not / As long as we can say ‘this is the worst’”
“Stand still. How fearful / And dizzy ‘this to cast one’s eyes so low!”
“Sweet majoram” - Link to Hamlet, Ophelia uses it as a cure for the mind
“Wretched though I seem, / I can produce a champion that will prove”
“My name is Edgar, and thy fathers son”
Edmund
“Now gods, stand up for bastards!”
“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit”
“(Stage direction) He wounds his arm”
“I will persever in my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood”
“Which of them shall I take? / Both? - One? - or Neither?”
“The wheel has come full circled. I am here”
