Act 1 Scene 1 – Lear | ” we shall express our darker purpose”” which if you shall we say doth love us most?”” unburdened crawl toward death” |
Act 1 scene 1 – Cordelia | ” what shall Cordelia speak? Love and be silent” |
Act 1 scene 1 – Kent | ” see better Lear” |
Act 1 scene 2 – Edmund | ” our fathers love is to the bastard Edmund as to the legitimate” ” when my dimensions are as well compact, my mind as generous and my shape as true” |
Act 1 scene 2 – Gloucester | ” lets see, let’s see” |
Act 1 scene 3/4 – Goneril | ” old fools are babes again” |
Act 1 scene 3/4 – Lear | ” dry up in her the organs of increase and from her derogate body never spring a babe to honour her”” how sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child” |
Act 1 scene 3/4 – Oswald | ” my lady’s father” |
Act 3 scene 2 – Lear | ” a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man”” I am a man more sinned against that sinning” |
Act 3 scene 2 – Fool | ” this is a night pities neither wise men nor fools” |
Act 3 scene 3/4 – Fool | ” this cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen” |
Act 3 scene 3/4 – Lear | ” nothing could have subdued nature to such a lowness but his unkind daughters” |
Act 4 scene 1 – Gloucester | ” I have no way, therefore want no eyes: I stumbled when I saw”” there’s a cliff… bring me to the very brim of it, I’ll repair the misery thou dost bear” |
Act 4 scene 7 – Lear | ” I’m a very foolish fond old man”” you do me wrong to take me out o’the grave… that mine own tears” |
Act 4 scene 7 – Kent | ” in your own kingdom sir” |
King Lear quotes
July 26, 2019