King Lear - Key Quotes

Question 1

“Come not between…

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..a dragon and his wrath”.

Question 2

“This body’s delicate…

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… this tempest in my mind”.

Question 3

“Nothing will come of…

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… nothing. Speak again.”

Question 4

“Look sir…

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…I bleed”.

Question 5

“I disclaimer all…

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…paternal care, propinquity and property of blood”.

Question 6

“In cunning…

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… I must draw my sword”.

Question 7

“Cry you mercy…

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… I took you for a joint stool”.

Question 8

“Gloucesters bastard son…

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… was kinder to his father than my daughters”.

Question 9

“We two alone will…

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… sing like birds in a cage”.

Question 10

“see…

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… better Lear”.

Question 11

“The cruel nails…

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… pluck out his poor old eyes”.

Question 12

“I had rather loose the…

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…battle than that sister should loosen him”.

Question 13

“Edmund the base…

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…should top the legitimate”.

Question 14

“How in one house should…

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… many people under two commands hold amity?”

Question 15

“Nothing could have subdued…

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…nature to such a lowness, but his unkind daughters”.

Question 16

“As flies to wanton boys,…

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… are we to Gods; they kill us for their sport”.

Question 18

“Howl, howl,howl, howl…

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… O you are men of stones”.

Question 19

“Why after I have cut the egg…

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… in the middle and eat up the meat, the two crowns of the egg”.

Question 20

“May not an ass know…

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…when a cart draws the horse?”

Question 21

“Loyal and natural boy…

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…I’ll work the means to make the capable”.

Question 22

“Show too bold malice…

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…again the grace and person of my master, stocking his messenger”.

Question 23

“It’s the times plagued…

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… when madmen lead the blind”.

Question 24

“I’ll kneel down…

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… and ask for forgiveness..”

Question 25

“Into her womb…

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… convey sterility”.

Question 26

“O! How this mother swells…

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…towards my heart. Hysterica Passio.”

Question 27

“I must change arms at home…

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…and give the distaff into my husbands hands”.

Question 28

“Down from the waist…

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…they are centaurs, but women all above”.

Question 29

“Goneril. I here take my…

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… oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the poor King, her father.”

Question 30

“When I do stare…

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… see how the subject quakes”.

Question 31

“Lear and Cordelia shall never see his pardon…

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… for my state stands on me to defend not to debate.”

Question 32

“Why madam if I were your…

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…fathers dog, you would not treat me so.”

Question 33

“As pearls from…

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…diamonds dropped”.

Question 34

“I have a journey sir, shortly to go…

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… my master calls me I must not say no.”

Question 35

“Fathers that were rags…

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… do make their children blind”.

Question 36

“Tigers…

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… not daughters, what have you performed.”

Question 37

“The younger rises…

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… the old dost fall”.

Question 38

“The wheel has…

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… come full circle; I am here”.

Question 39

“These late eclipses…

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… in the sun and moon portend no good to us”.

Question 40

“I am a man…

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… more sinned against than sinning”.

Question 41

“My poor…

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…fool is hanged”.

Question 42

“Legitimate Edgar…

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… I shall have your land”.

Question 43

“Those pelican..

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…daughters”.

Question 44

“Which of them shall I take?…

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… Both? One? Or neither?”

Question 45

“Edmund the base…

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… shall top the legitimate”.

Question 46

“Loyal and natural boy…

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… I’ll work the means to make thee capable”.

Question 47

“The judgement of the…

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… heavens makes us tremble”.