King Lear Quotes

King Lear

• 'I have so often blushed to acknowledge him.'
• 'We unburdened crawl towards death.'
• 'I do love you more than word can wield the matter.'
• 'What shall Cordelia speak? Love and be silent.'
• 'I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.'
• 'I love your majesty according to my bond, no more, no less.'

King Lear

• 'I disclaim all my parental care, propinquity and property of blood.'
• 'Come not between the dragon and his wrath.'
• 'See better Lear and let me remain.'
• 'Tis most strange.'
• 'She is herself a dowry.'
• 'You see how full of change his age is.'

King Lear

• 'Well then legitimate Edgar, i must have your land.'
• 'I hope for my brothers justification, he wrote this but as an essay.'
• 'O villain, villain, his very opinion in the letter! Abhorred villain.'
• 'An admirable evasion of the whoremaster man.'
• 'Brother i advise you to the best, go armed.'
• 'Now banished Kent, if thoust canst serve where thou dost stand condemned.'

King Lear

• 'Into her womb convey sterility, dry up in her organs of increase.'
• 'From her derogate body, never spring a babe to honour her.'
• 'How sharper it is than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.'
• 'Old fond eyes.'
• 'Inform her full of my particular fear and thereto add such reasons of your own as may compact it.'
• 'Oh fool i shall go mad.'

King Lear

• 'I will not sleep, my lord, until i have delivered your letter.'
• 'Some blood drawn on me should beget opinion of my more fierce endeavour.'
• 'Draw you rascal, you come with letters against the king!'
• 'Such a slave as this should wear a sword who wears no honour.'
• 'Fetch forth the stocks hoe! You stubborn, ancient knave, you reverend bastard, we'll teach you!'
• 'I cannot think my sister would in the least fail her obligation.'

King Lear

• 'O sir, you are old.'
• 'Dear daughter i confess i am old, age is unnecessary.'
• 'These are unsightly tricks, return you to my sister.'
• 'I gave you all.' 'And in good time you gave it.'
• 'A poor old man, as full of grief as age, wretched in both.'
• 'I will have such revenges on you both, that all the world shall... i will do such things.'

King Lear

• 'You think i will weep, no i'll not weep.'
• 'The younger rise when the old doth fall.'
• 'His wits are gone.'
• 'Hang him instantly!'
• 'Pluck out his eyes.'
• She takes a sword and runs at him behind.

King Lear

• 'I know your lady does not love her husband.'
• 'Have i fallen or no?'
• 'How shall i live and work to match thy goodness.'
• 'I am a very foolish, fond old man.'
• 'Do you not love my sister.'
• 'Neither can be enjoyed whilst both remain alive.'

King Lear

• 'I am no less in blood than thou.'
• 'The wheel is come full circle.'
• 'Her sister by her is poisoned, she confesses it.'
• 'Is this the promised end.'
• 'My poor fool is hanged.'
• 'Ay, so i think.'

King Lear

• 'My master calls me, i must not say no.'
• 'Speak what we feel not what we ought to say.'
• 'We that are young shall never never see so much nor live so long.'