King Lear Quotes

Question 1

‘Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks’

Answer 1

Lear (Act 4, Scene 6)

Question 2

‘HIs breading, sir, hath been at my charge. I have so often blushed to acknowledge him that now I am brazed to’t’

Answer 2

Gloucester to Kent (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 3

‘Sir, I love you more than…eyesight, space and liberty…’

Answer 3

Goneril to Lear (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 4

‘We make thee lady’

Answer 4

Lear to Goneril (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 5

‘Our dearest Regan, wife of Cornwall? Speak.’

Answer 5

Lear to Regan (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 6

‘Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.’

Answer 6

Lear (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 7

‘Whom I have ever honoured as my king, loved as my father, as my master followed…’

Answer 7

Kent to Lear (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 8

‘Out of my sight!’

‘See better Lear’

Answer 8

Lear and Kent (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 9

‘Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor… most loved, despised’

Answer 9

France to Cordelia (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 10

‘Why brand us with ‘base’, with ‘baseness’, ‘bastardy’…within a dull, stale, tired bed…Well then, legitimate Edgar, I must have your land’

Answer 10

Edmund’s soliloquy (Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 11

‘O villain, villain: his very opinion in the letter!’

Answer 11

Gloucester (Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 12

‘These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us…there’s son against father; the king falls from bias nature: there’s father against child’

Answer 12

Gloucester (Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 13

‘This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion’

Answer 13

Edmund’s soliloquy (Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 14

‘A credulous father; a brother noble, whose nature is so far from doing harms that he suspects none - on whose foolish honesty my practices ride easy… Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit’

Answer 14

Edmund’s soliloquy (Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 15

‘By day and night he wrongs me. Every hour he flashes into one gross crime…I’ll not endure it.’

Answer 15

Goneril to Oswald (Act 1, Scene 3)

Question 16

‘I do profess to be no less than I seem’

Answer 16

Caius to Lear (Act 1, Scene 4)

Question 17

‘…as poor as the king’ ‘…thou art poor enough’

Answer 17

Caius and Lear (Act 1, Scene 4)

Question 18

‘You have that countenance which I would fain call master…Authority’

Answer 18

Caius to Lear (Act 1, Scene 4)

Question 19

‘Contending with foul elements; bids the wind blow the earth into the sea…his little world of man’

Answer 19

Gentleman (Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 20

‘None but the Fool, who labours to out-jest his heart-struck injuries’

Answer 20

Gentleman (Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 21

‘Into this scattered kingdom, who already, wise in our negligence, have secret feet in some of our best ports…’

Answer 21

Kent (Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 22

‘Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, Till you have drenched our steeple, drowned the cocks!’

Answer 22

Lear to the storm (Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 23

‘…court holy-water…ask thy daughters blessing…’

Answer 23

Fool to Lear (Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 24

‘I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness: I never gave you kingdom, called you children; you owe me no subscripton…Here I stand your slave, a poor, infirm, week and despised old man’

Answer 24

Lear to the storm (Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 25

‘…that’s a wise man and a fool’

Answer 25

Fool to Caius (Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 26

‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning’

Answer 26

Lear (Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 27

‘Poor fool and kanve, I have one part in my heart that’s sorry for thee yet’

Answer 27

Lear (Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 28

‘When priests are more in word than matter; when brewers mar theur malt with water; when nobles are their tailors’ tutors; then shall the relm of Albion…’

Answer 28

Fool (Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 29

‘A king, a king!’

Answer 29

Lear to Poor Tom (Act 3, Scene 6)

Question 30

‘He chlded as I fathered’

Answer 30

Poor Tom’s soliloquy (Act 3, Scene 6)

Question 31

‘[Regan plucks Gloucester’s beard]’

Answer 31

Stage directions (Act 3, Scene 7)