Key Quotes in King Lear

Key Quotes in King Lear

1. The Fool;

   • 1.4 'Lear's shadow'
   • 1.4 'Learn more than thou trowest
   • 3.6 'And I'll go to bed at noon'
   • 3.2 'And bawds and whores do churches build that shall the realm of Albion

2. Cordelia;

   • 1.1 'Nothing my lord'
   • 4.4 'Spring with my tears. Be aidant and remediate'
   • 4.7 'How does my royal lord'

3. Goneril;

   • 1.1 'Sir I do love you more than word can wield the matter'
   • 1.4 'Your insolent rentinue'
   • 3.7 'Pluck out his eyes'

4. Lear;

   • 1.1 'Unburdened crawl toward death'
   • 1.1 'Come not between a dragon and its wrath'
   • 1.4 'Detested kite'
   • 2.2 'Mans life as cheap as beasts'
   • 3.2 'Blow winds and crack your cheeks'
   • 3.2 'I am a man more sinned against than sinning'
   • 3.2 'My wits begin to turn'
   • 3.4 'Shake the superlux'
   • 4.6 'Get thee glass eyes'
   • 4.7 'I am bound upon a wheel of fire'
   • 3.6 'To have a thousand with red spits come hissing in upon 'em'

5. Gloucester;

   • 1.2 'Kent banished thus? And France in choler parted?'
   • 1.2 'I shall not need my spectacles'
   • 2.1 'Loyal and natural boy'
   • 3.7 'O cruel! O you gods!'
   • 4.1 'I stumbled when I saw'
   • 4.1 'As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport'

6. Edmund;

   • 1.2 'Stand in the plague of custom'
   • 1.2 'I must have your land'
   • 1.2 'Now gods stand up for bastards'
   • 1.2 'To lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star'
   • 3.3 'THe younger rises when the old doth fall'

7. Regan;

   • 1.1 'SirI am made of that self mettle as my sister'
   • 3.7 'So white, and such a traitor'
   • 3.7 'How now, you dog'
   • 1.1 'Tis the infirmity of his age'

8. Kent;

   • 1.1 'See better Lear'
   • 1.4 'Now banished Kent'
   • 3.2 'Alack, bareheaded'
   • 4.3 'It is the stars the stars above us govern our conditions'

9. Edgar;

   • 2.2 'Of Beldham Beggars'
   • 2.2 'Poor Tom, thats something yet: Edgar I nothing am'
   • 3.4 'Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog'