Quotes Flashcards
“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
Lear, (Act III Scene II, Lines 57-58)
“Dearer than eyesight”
Gonerill, (Act I Scene I, Line 51)
“Nothing, my lord”
Cordelia, (Act I Scene I, Line 82)
“See better, Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye”
Kent, (Act I Scene I, Lines 152-153)
“this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I’ll weep. O fool, I shall go mad.”
Lear, (Act II Scene IV, Lines 276-278)
“Gonerill with a white beard”
Lear, (Act IV Scene V, Line 94)
“we two alone will sing like birds i’th’cage.”
Lear, (Act V Scene III, Line 9)
“Fortune, good night, smile once more: turn thy wheel.”
Kent, (Act II Scene III, Lines 155-156)
“The wheel is come full circle: I am here.”
Edmund, (Act V Scene III, Line 164)
“Pluck out his eyes”
Gonerill, (Act III Scene VII, Line 5)
“Because I would not see thy cruel nails pluck out his poor old eyes,”
Gloucester, (Act III Scene VII, Line 55-56)
“I grow; I prosper. Now, gods, stand up for bastards!”
Edmund, (Act I Scene II, Lines 21-22)
“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.
Gloucester, (Act IV Scene I, Lines 36-37)
“Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so
That heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone forever!
I know when one is dead, and when one lives;
She’s dead as earth.”
Lear (Act V Scene III, Lines 231-234)
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty
According to my bond; no more nor less.
Cordelia (Act 1 Scene 1. Lines 90–92)
