King Lear Quotes

King Lear Quotes

1. Tis our fast intent/ To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths/ While we unburthen’d crawl towards death

2. That future strife may be prevented now

   • reasoning for the degrading Love Test

3. Which of you shall we say doth love us most?

4. Nothing will come of nothing, speak again

5. I loved her most and thought to set my rest on her kind nursery

   • Thy truth then be thy dower
     • Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides
       • Insight by Cordelia
       • Cordelia
     • You see how full of changes his age is
       • Goneril

6. Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit

   • Edmund

7. I am a fool, thou art nothing.

   • Fool

8. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend/ More hideous when thou shows’t thee in a child”

   • Yet have I left a daughter?
     • Has he abandoned the one daughter that truly loved him?
   • How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/ To have a thankless child
   • Old fond eyes, Beweep this cause again, I’ll pluck ye out
     • Foolish eyes don't cry or I shall pluck ye out

9. Oh let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!

10. I did her wrong