King Lear Quotes

Question 1

Gods quotes

Answer 1

• “Thou, Nature, art my goddess”
• “Eclipses of the sun and moon”
• “Villans on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion”
• “As flies to wanton boys we are to th’ gods”
• “Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so that heaven’s vault should crack”

Question 2

Fortune quotes

Answer 2

• “Fortune, good night; smile once more; turn thy wheel!”
• “Fortune, that arrant whore, / Ne’er turns the key to th’ poor”

Question 2

Catharsis quotes

Answer 2

• “When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down / And ask of thee forgiveness. So we’ll live, / And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh”
• “Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all?”
• “They told me I was everything: ‘tis a lie, I am no ague-proof.”

Question 3

Hostility of Nature quotes

Answer 3

• “O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars / Are in the poorest thing superfluous; Allow not nature more than nature needs, / Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.”
• “Blow winds and crack your cheeks!”
• “Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.”

Question 4

Misjudgement quotes

Answer 4

• “Nothing will come of nothing”
• “Who is it that can tell me who I am?”
• “I am a man more sinned against than sinning.”

Question 5

Medicine quotes

Answer 5

“Kill thy physician”
“Poor, infirm, weak”
“If not, I’ll ne’er trust medicine”
“Propinquity of blood”
“Love-gall”
“Heart-struck injuries”
“My heart would burst”

Question 6

Mental health

Answer 6

“Hysterica passio”
“I fear I am not in my right mind”