Key Quotes Flashcards
Gloucester - “I am almost mad myself…
The grief hath crazed me”
Lear - “Howl,howl,howl…
You are men of stones”
Edgar - “take the basest and
Poorest shape”
Lear - “when we are born
We cry that we are come to this great stage of fools”
Edgar - “reason in
madness”
Lear on Poor tom
“Philosopher”
Lear - “reason not the need…
The art of our necessities is strange”
Lear - “blow winds that
Crack your cheeks”
Lear - “poor naked wretches
O, I have ta’en too little care of this”
Lear - “Unaccomadated man is no more but
Such a poor, bare, forked man as thou art”
Edmund - “We blame all that we are evil in
By a divine thrusting upon…fools by heavenly compulsion”
Lear - “O let me not be mad
Sweet heaven”
Cornwall - “power shall
do a courtesy to our wrath”
Edmund - “Now gods
Stand up for bastards”
Edmund - “the plague of
custom”
Lear - “I am a man more
sinned against than sinning”
Lear - “How sharper than a serpent’s
tooth it is to have a thankless child”
Edgar - “the gods are
just”
Gloucester - “winged
vengeance”
Gloucester - “as flies to wanton boys
the gods kill us for their sport”
Lear - “they told me I was everything…
‘Tis a lie, I am not ague proof”
Lear - “a man may see how
this world goes with no eyes”
Cordelia’s answer - Lear’s response
“Nothing”
“Nothing will come of Nothing”
Lear - “Never,never
Never,never,never”
Kent - “reverb
no hollowness”
Goneril - “The best and soundest
of his time but rash”
Regan - “dearer than
eyesight, space and liberty”
Cordelia - “my loves more
Ponderous than my tongue”
Cordelia - “according to
my bond, no more, no less”
Fool - “thou hast pared thy
wit o’ both sides and left Nothing in the middle”
Cornwall - “childlike
Office”
Edmund - “the wheel
has come full circle”
Lear - “I hereby disclaim all
my paternal care, propinquity, and property of blood”
Edgar - “his flawed heart
burst smilingly”
Lear - “my poor fool…
Is hanged”
Edgar - “the weight of this sad time
We must obey, speak what we feel, not what we ought to say”
Regan - “prescribe us…
Not our duty”
Cornwall - edmund has done a “childlike
Office”
