Theme Quotes Flashcards
Blindness
“All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men”
“I had no way and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw”
“A man may see how the old goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears”
“Get thee glass eyes / And, like a scurvy politician, seem / To see thing thou dost not”
Parent Child Relationships
“Which of you shall we say doth love us most”
“But now, our joy, / although the last, not least in our dear love”
I love your majesty / according to my bond, nor more nor less”
“Thou madest thy daughters thy mother”
“Pelican daughters”
“The hedge sparrow fed the cuckoo so long / that it had its head bitten off by its young”
Betrayal
“In palaces, treason; and the bind crack ‘do ‘twist son and father”
“Machinations, hollowness, treachery and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves”
“Edmund I arrest thee/ on capital treason”
Madness
“O, let me not be mad, nit mad, sweet heavens”
“Enter Edgar disguised as a madman”
“Thou say’st the King grows mad: I tell thee, friend, / I am almost mad myself”
“This the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind”
Nature
“Thou, Nature, art my goddess”
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!”
“Crack natures moulds, all germains spill at once,/ that makes ungrateful ingrateful man”
“The tempest in my mind/ Doth from my senses take all feeling else”
