Quotes Flashcards
Goneril - Act I, scene i
“Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty”
Regan - Act I, scene i
“She comes too short”
Cordelia - Act I, scene i
“Nothing”
Lear - Act I, scene i
“Nothing comes from nothing, speak again”
Lear - Act I, scene i
“Barbarous Scythian”
Kent - Act I, scene i
“See better, Lear”
Kent - Act I, scene i
“Kent unmannerly
Edmund - Act I, scene ii
“O nature thou art my goddess”
Edmund - Act I, scene ii
“Now gods, stand up for bastards”
Goneril - Act III, scene vii
“Pluck out his eyes”
Gloucester - Act IV, scene i
“I stumbled when I saw”
Gloucester - Act IV, scene vii
“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport”
Lear - Act IV, scene vi
“Let me wipe it first, it smells of mortality”
Fool - Act I, scene iv
“Lear’s shadow”
Fool - Act I, scene iv
“All thy other titles thou hast given away”
Oswold
“My lady’s father”
Lear -
“I am even the natural fool of fortune”
Lear
“The wheel has come full circle”
Fool - Act I, scene iv
“Now thou art o without a figure”
Lear
“I am old and foolish”
Servant
“Women will all turn monsters”
Edgar
“Speak what we feel and not what we ought to say”
Kent
“I have a journey sir, shortly I go”
Lear
“Better thou hast not been born than not to have pleased me better”
Lear
“On her kind nursery”
