king lear quotes

• Lear: '"That future strife may be prevented now"'
• Lear: '"Nothing will come of nothing"'
• Lear: '"Come not between the dragon and his wrath"'
• Lear: '"The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft"'
• Lear: '"I loved her most"'
• Lear: '"Here I disclaim all my paternal care….my sometimes daughter"'
• Lear: '"Let pride which she calls plainness marry her"'
• Lear: '"A wretch whom nature is ashamed"'
• Lear: '"Better thou hadst not been born than not t'have pleased me better"'
• Regan: '"I am made of the self-same mettle that my sister is"'
• Regan: '"Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself"'
• Regan: '"We must do something, and I' the heat"'
• Cordelia: '"My love's more ponderous than my tongue"'
• Cordelia: '"Respect and fortune are his love"'
• Cordelia: '"With washed eyes Cordelia leaves you"'
• Kent: '"Royal Lear...King…Father...Master"'
• Kent: '"Thy safety being the motive"'
• Kent: '"See better, Lear"'
• Kent: '"Hideous rashness"'
• Kent: '"Thou dost evil"'
• Kent: '"Thy daughter does not love thee least"'
• Edmund: '"Why bastard? Wherefore base?"'
• Edmund: '"Edmund the base shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper; Now, gods, stand up for bastards"'
• Edmund: '"Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit"'
• Gloucester: '"This villain of mine"'
• Goneril: '"Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one"'
• Oswald: '"My lady's father"'
• The Fool: '"Thy hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away"'
• The Fool: '"Thou gavest them the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches"'
• The Fool: '"I am a fool, thou art nothing"'
• Lear: '"Doth any here know me? This is not Lear"'
• Lear: '"Who is it that can tell me who I am?"'
• Lear: '"Where are his eyes"'
• Lear: '"Degenerate bastard…Yet have I left a daughter"'
• Lear: '"Beat at this gate that let thy folly in, and thy dear judgement out"'
• Lear: '"I am ashamed that thou hast power to shake my manhood thus"'
• Lear: '"Old fond eyes, beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out"'
• Lear: '"I'll resume the shape which thou dost think I have cast off for ever. Thou shalt, I warrant thee"'
• Lear: '"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven"'
• Kent: '"If I was you father's dog you would not use me so"'