King Lear Quotes Flashcards
“How sharper than…”
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
-Lear
“We are not…”
“We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body.”
-Lear
“And worse I…”
“And worse I may be yet. The worst is not so long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.’”
-Edgar
“Ay, every inch…”
“Ay, every inch a king. When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.”
-Lear
“Nothing…”
“Nothing comes of nothing.”
-Lear
“Keep thy foot…”
“Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender’s books, and defy the foul fiend.”
-Edgar
“When we are…”
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
-Lear
“Striving to better…”
“Striving to better, oft’ we mar what’s well.”
-Albany
“Her voice was…”
“Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.”
-Lear
