Paper 1 - King Lear quotes Flashcards
“meantime we shall express our…
…darker purpose”
“come not between…
… a dragon and his wrath”
“time shall unfold what…
…plaited cunning hides”
“how sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/…
…to have a thankless child”
“here I stand, your slave/…
…a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man”
“ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,/…
…more hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child,/ than a sea monster”
“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;/…
…keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”
“I am bound/ upon a wheel…
…of fire, that mine own tears/ do scald like molten lead”
“I fear I am not in my…
…perfect mind”
“pray you now,…
…forget and forgive”
There was good sport at…
…his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged
What shall Cordelia do?….
…love and be silent.
I love your majesty according….
…to my bond, nor more nor less
Mend your speech…
…a little, lest it may mar your fortunes
Reverse thy doom, and in thy best…
…consideration check this hideous rashness
‘Tis the infirmity of his age;…
…yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself
The quality of nothing hath…
…not such need to hide itself. Let’s see. Come, if it be nothing then I shall not need spectacles.
These late eclipses in the sun and moon…
…portend no good to us.
Let me, if not by birth,…
…have lands by birth
This fellow two on’s daughters and done a third a blessing…
…against his will. If thou follow him, thou must needs to wear my coxcomb.
