King Lear quotes

Question 1

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 1

“His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge. I have often blushed to acknowledge him”

Question 1

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 1

“I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall”

Question 2

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 2

“His mother fair; there was good sport at his making the whoreson must be acknowledged”

Question 3

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 3

“While we unburdened crawl towards death”

Question 4

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 4

“Sir, I love you more than word can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space and liberty”

Question 5

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 5

“Unhappy that I am I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond, no more no less”

Question 6

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 6

“Here I disclaim all my parental care, propinquity and property of blood and as a stranger to my heart and me”

Question 7

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 7

“Come not between the dragon and his wrath. I loved her most and thought to set my rest on her kind nursery”

Question 8

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 8

“My life I never held but as a pawn to wage against thine enemies”

Question 9

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 9

“When she was dear to us we did hold her so; but now her price is fallen”

Question 10

Act 1 scene 1

Answer 10

“You see how full of changes his age is. The observation we have made of it hath not been little”

Question 11

Act 1 scene 2

Answer 11

“Shall top the legitimate. I grow. I prosper. Now gods stand up for bastards”

Question 12

Act 1 scene 2

Answer 12

“What needed then that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket? The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself”

Question 13

Act 1 scene 2

Answer 13

“Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain!”

Question 14

Act 1 scene 2

Answer 14

“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us”

Question 15

Act 1 scene 2

Answer 15

“Star in the firmament on my bastardising”

Question 16

Act 1 scene 2

Answer 16

“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; all with me’s meet that I can fashion fit”

Question 17

Act 1 scene 3

Answer 17

“By day and night he wrongs me; every hour he flashes into one gross crime or another”

Question 18

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 18

“Now banished Kent, if thou dost stand condemned so may it come thy master whom thou lovest shall find thee full of labours”

Question 19

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 19

“Who am I sir?” “My lady’s father, my lord’s knave! You whoreson! You dog! You slave! You cur!”

Question 20

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 20

“If thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb”

Question 21

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 21

“Doest thou call me fool, boy” - “All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou was born with”

Question 22

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 22

The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long that it’s had it head bit off by it young”

Question 23

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 23

“Does anyone here know me? This is not Lear.”

Question 24

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 24

“O most small fault, how ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!”

Question 25

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 25

“Into her womb convey sterility, dry up her the organs of increase”

Question 26

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 26

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child”

Question 27

Act 1 scene 4

Answer 27

“That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus”

Question 28

Act 1 scene 5

Answer 28

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise”

Question 29

Act 1 scene 5

Answer 29

“O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven”