King Lear Quotes Flashcards
Quotes surrounding physical loss of identity
“Oh reason not the need…man’s life as cheap as beasts” - LEAR A2S4
“contempt of man…brought near to beast” - EDGAR/POOR TOM A2S4
“father’s that wear rags do make their children blind” - Fool A2S4
“is man no more than this…no silk the beat no hide..poor bare animal” - LEAR -A3S4
“[tearing off his clothes]” - Lear A3S4
Quotes on disguise
“can my speech diffuse my good intent” - Kent A1S4
“the prince of darkness is a gentlemen” - Edgar A3S4
Quotes on power
“thou art an O without a figure” - Fool A1S4
“Does any here know me? - Lear A1S4
“I am ashamed thou hast power to shake my manhood thus” A1S4
“the younger rises when the old doth fall” -Edumund A3S3
“all the power of his wits have given way to his impatience” - Kent
“Nature above art in that respect” Lear A4S6
Quotes on Cordelia
“sunshinen and rain at once”
“the holy water from her heavenly eyes”
“her delicate cheeck”
“pearls and diamonds”
“queen over her passion”
Quotes on God/Faith
“the stars above us, govern our conditions” - Kent A4S3
“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for sport” - Gloucester A4S1
“The wheel is come full circle” - EDMUND A5 S3
“the gods are just” - EDGAR A5S3
“of our pleasant vices make intrusments to plague us”
“had i your tounges and eyes i’d use them so that heavens fault should crack” - A5S3
“I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardising” A1 S2 EDMUND
Lears Wrath
“come not between a dragon and his wrath” A1S1 lear
“keep me in temper”
A1S5 lear
“blow, winds and crack your cheecks! rage! blow!” A3S2
“tempest in my mind” - lear A3S4
Key quotes from Edgar speech
“severed the lust of my mistress heart…and did the act of darkness with her”
“slept in the contriving of lust”
“swore many others…and broke them in the sweet face of heaven”
“hog in sloth…wolf in greediness”
quotes on madness
“daughter do not make me mad” A2S4
“oh let me not be mad sweet heaven” A1S5
“i fear i am not of perfect mind” A4S7
“as mad as the vexed sea…crowned with hedlock, nettles, idle weeds” Cordelia A4S4
“when the mind’s free, the bodys delicate” A3S4
quotes on Goneril and Regan
“O distinguished space of woman’s will!” A4S6 - Edgar
“say if I do the laws are mine, not thine” - A5S3 Goneril
“Give me thy sword, a Peasant stand up thus” - Goneril A3S7
“I pray you, father, being weak seem so” - Regan A2S4
“Down from the waist they are centaurs though women above” - Lear A4S6
“they flattered me like a dog” - Lear A4S6
Quotes on daughter-father relationship/LIKNESS
“nothing could have subdued nature to such a loweness but his unkind daughters” A3S4 Lear
“Those pelican daughters” LEAR A3S4 (pelican babies ate their parents)
“fifty men dismiseed, no rather i abjure all roofs ..choose to wage against the enimity of the air” A2S4 COMPARES “i’d rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me” GONERIL A5S1
“they will make an obdeient father” A1S4
