King Lear Quotes- act 1

Question 1

But I have…

Answer 1

But I have a son Sir, by order of law, in some year elder, who yet is no dearer in my account. (Gloucester)

Question 2

In three…

Answer 2

In three our kingdom; and this our fast intent to shake all cares and business from our age.
Conferring them on younger strengths
While we unburdened crawl towards death.
(Lear)

Question 3

Sir I love you…

Answer 3

Sir I love you more than words can wield the matter;
Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.
(Goneril)

Question 4

Love and…

Answer 4

Love and be silent
(Cordelia)

Question 5

I’m sure my love’s…

Answer 5

I’m sure by loves more ponderous than my tongue.
(Cordelia)

Question 6

Let it be…

Answer 6

Let it be so, thy truth then be thy dower
(Lear)

Question 7

Nothing?

Answer 7

Nothing?
Nothing.
Nothing can come of nothing.
(Lear/Cordelia)

Question 8

Unhappy…

Answer 8

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

Question 9

I loved her…

Answer 9

I loved her most and thought to set my rest on her kind nursery.
(Lear)

Question 10

See better Lear…

Answer 10

See better lear; and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye

Question 11

To plainless…

Answer 11

To plainness honour’s bound when majesty falls to folly

Question 12

Out of…

Answer 12

Out of my sight!

Question 13

Fare thee…

Answer 13

Fare thee well king; sith tou wilt appear, freedom lives hence and banishment is here

Question 14

And your large…

Answer 14

And your large speeches may your deeds approve, that good may spring from words of love
- Kent speaking to Goneril and Regan

Question 15

Time shall

Answer 15

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides; who covers faults, at last with shame derides

Question 16

Wherefore should I

Answer 16

Wherefore should I permit the curiosity of nations to deprive me
-Edmund

Question 17

Legitimate Edgar…

Answer 17

Legitimate Edgar I must have your land

Question 18

O villain, villian…

Answer 18

O villian, villian! his very opinion in the letter! Abhorred villian!

-Gloucester

Question 19

Some villian…

Answer 19

some villian hath done me wrong

- Edgar

Question 20

Let me if not by birth…

Answer 20

let me if not by birth, have lands by wit; all with me’s that i can fashion fit

Question 21

Now gods…

Answer 21

now, gods, stand up for bastards

Question 22

My ladys…

Answer 22

my ladys father

- oswald

Question 23

I can…

Answer 23

I can… deliver a plain message bluntly

Question 24

I am better than thou…

Answer 24

I am better than thou art now; i am a fool, thou art nothing

- fool
- nothing, voice of cordelia speaking through the fool

Question 25

This villain of mine..

Answer 25

This villain of mine comes under the prediction there’s son against father:the kind falls from the bias of nature; there’s father against child
-Gloucester

Question 26

I know in that are one…

Answer 26

I know in that are one, not to be over-rules. Idle old man, that still would manage authorities that he hath given away! Now by my life,old fools are babes again
-Goneril