Main quotes Flashcards
“I do love you…”
“more than words can wield the matter.”
Goneril
“nothing will come…”
“of nothing. Speak again.”
Lear
“come not between the…”
“dragon and his wrath.”
Lear
“when majesty falls…”
“to folly.”
Kent
“freedom lives…”
“hence and banishment is here.”
Kent
“I cannot heave…”
“my heart into my mouth.”
Cordelia
“he hath ever but…”
“slenderly known himself.”
Regan
“my mind as generous…”
“and my shape as true.”
Edmund
“we make guilty of our disasters…”
“the sun, the moon and the stars as if we were villains by necessity.”
Edmund
“Now, gods, stand up for bastards! I only…”
“worship what’s natural, not what’s manmade.”
Edmund
“it is hard but I hope his…”
“heart is not in the contents.”
Edmund
“on whose foolish…”
“honesty, my practices ride easy.”
Edmund
“how far your eyes…”
“may pierce I cannot tell.”
Albany
“leave thy drink…”
“and thy whore.”
Fool
“and from her derogate…”
“body never spring another babe to honour her.”
Lear
“how sharper than a serpent’s…”
“tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
Lear
‘keep me in…”
“temper, I would not be mad.”
Lear
“you see me here, you gods…”
“a poor old man, as full of grief as age, wretched in both.”
Lear
“a disease that’s in my…”
“flesh which I must needs call mine.”
Lear
“-I will do such things - what they are…”
“yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth.”
Lear
“o fool,…”
“I shall go mad.”
Lear
“a poor, infirm, weak…”
“and despised old man.”
Lear
“I am a man more…”
“sinned against than sinning.”
Lear
“the younger rises…”
“when the old doth fall.”
Edmund
“the tempest in my mind…”
“doth from my senses take all feeling else.”
Lear
“I am a very…”
“foolish, fond, old man.”
Lear
“I fear I am not in my…”
“perfect mind.”
Lear
“as flies to wanton boys…”
“we are to th’Gods, they kill us for their sport.”
Gloucester
“pray you undo…”
“this button, thank you Sir.”
Lear
“blow winds…”
“and crack your cheeks.”
Lear
“I am a King,…”
“my masters, know you that?”
Lear
“nor are those empty-…”
“hearted, whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.”
Kent
“who is it that…”
“can tell me who I am?”
Lear
“see better…”
“Lear.”
Kent
“My life I never…”
“held but as pawn.”
Kent
