| Do you not love my sister?… Dear my lord, be not familiar with her | Regan – Edmund jealousy |
| The which immediacy may well stand up and call itself your brother | Regan – Edmund husband |
| Lady, I am not well… that I create here my Lord and master | Regan – illness and Edmund husband |
| I had rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me | Goneril – Edmund jealousy |
| If not, I’ll never trust medicine | Goneril – poisoning R |
| Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister by her is poisoned; she confesses it | Goneril (Gentleman) – suicide |
| Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Neither? | Edmund – sister questions |
| Neither can be enjoyed if both remain alive | Edmund – not both G+R |
| (Lear) shall never see his pardon; for my state stands on me to defend, not debate | Edmund – Lear death |
| that men are as the time is; to be tender-minded does not become a sword | Edmund – savage in war |
| Back do I toss these treasons to thy head, with the hell-hated lie overwhelm thy heart | Edmund – treason claim |
| The wheel is come full circle | Edmund – circle |
| This speech of yours hath moved me | Edmund – sympathy |
| Yet Edmund was beloved | Edmund – love |
| Some good I mean to do, despite of my own nature | Edmund – redeeming |
| We are not the first who with best meaning have incurred the worst | Cordelia – no justice |
| We two alone will sing like birds in the cage… So we’ll live and pray and sing, and laugh at gilded butterflies | Lear – time w Cordelia |
| Howl, howl, howl, howl! | Lear – anguish |
| I know when one is dead and when one lives; she’s dead as earth | Lear – clarity |
| Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha? What is it thou sayst? | Lear – wants C alive |
| If I ever return to you again, I’ll bring you comfort | Edgar – Gloucester care |
| O know my name is lost, by treason’s tooth-bare gnawn | Edgar – status fall |
| thou art a traitor: false to the gods, thy brother and thy father | Edgar – Edmund traitor |
| The dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes | Edgar – Gloucester adultery |
| Never – O fault! – revealed myself unto him… But his flawed heart, alack, too weak to support | Edgar – Gloucester death |
| I hold you but a subject of this war, not as a brother | Albany – Edmund par |
| If there be more, more woeful, hold it in, for I am almost ready to dissolve hearing this | Albany – compassion |
| Rule in this realm and the gored state sustain | Albany – selfless |
| I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; my master calls me, I must not say no | Kent – loyalty |
| The weight of this sad time we must obey, speak what we feel, not what we ought to say | Edgar/Albany – no deception |
| The oldest hath borne most; we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long | Edgar/Albany – respect olders |
King Lear Act 5 Quotes
July 30, 2019