| Kent (in disguise) | ‘A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king’ |
| Lear | I have perceived a most faint neglect of late’ |
| Fool | ‘Thou’lt catch a cold shortly…..this fellow has banished two on’s daughters, and did the third a blessing’ |
| Fool | ‘They will make an obedient father’ |
| Fool | ‘Men so disorder’d’ |
| Fool | ‘Infected with their manners’ |
| Fool | ‘Will take the thing she begs’ |
| Lear | ‘Marble-hearted fiend’ |
| Lear | ‘Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful! Into her womb convey sterility!’ |
| Lear | ‘That it may live. And be a thwart disnatur’d torment to her! |
| Goneril | ‘Dotage’ (Alzheimers) |
| Lear | ‘I have another daughter who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable’ |
| Goneril | ‘What he hath utter’d I have writ my sister’ |
| Goneril | ‘Inform her full of my particular fear and thereto add such reasons of your own’ |
| Goneril | ‘Milky gentleness’ |
King Lear Important Quotes A1 S4
July 26, 2019