king lear

• "Unburdened crawl towards death"


  Lear, 1.1
• "Future strife may be prevented now "

  Lear, 1.1
• "Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty"

  Goneril, 1.1
• "Only she comes too short"


  Regan, 1.1
• "Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again."


  Lear, 1.1
• "According to my bond"


  Cordelia, 1.1
• "thy truth be thy dower... My sometime daughter"


  Lear, 1.1
• "Come not between the dragon and his wrath"


  Lear, 1.1
• "This coronet part betwixt you"


  Lear, 1.1
• "Away! By Jupiter, this shall not be revoked."


  Lear, 1.1
• "I shall not be his wife"


  Cordelia, 1.1
• "We must do something, and i'th'heat."

  Goneril, 1.1
• "Now, gods, stand up for bastards!"

  Edmund, 1.2
• "These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us"

  Gloucester, 1.2
• "Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves"

  Gloucester, 1.2
• "Put on what weary negligence you please"

  Goneril, 1.3
• "Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?"

  Fool, 1.3
• "thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gav'st thy golden one away."

  Fool, 1.4
• "I would not be thee nuncle"


  Fool, 1.4
• "Does Lear walk thus, speak thus? Where are his eyes?"

  Lear, 1.4
• "Who is it who can tell me who I am?"

  "Lear's shadow"


  Lear and Fool, 1.4
• "Hear, nature, hear! dear goddess, hear!...

  How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is

  To have a thankless child!"

  Lear, 1.4
• "Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise."

  "O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!"

  Fool and Lear, 1.5
• "Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion of my more fierce endeavor"


  Edmund, 2.1
• "Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond the child was bound to th' father...opposite I stood to his unnatural purpose"


  Edmund, 2.1
• "Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means to make thee capable"

  Gloucester, 2.1
• "If they come to sojourn at my house I'll not be there"

  "Nor I, assure thee, Regan - Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father a childlike office."

  Regan and Cornwall, 2.1
• "I know sir, I am no flatterer."


  Kent, 2.2
• "Till noon? Till night, my lord, and all night too."


  Regan, 2.2
• "Fortune, good night. Smile once more. Turn thy wheel. (sleeps)"


  Kent, 2.2
• "And with presented nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky"

  Edgar, 2.3
• " 'Poor Tom!' - That's something yet. Edgar I nothing am.

  Poor Tom, 2.3
• "They durst not do 't. They could not, would not do 't. 'Tis worse than murder to do upon respect such violent outrage."

  Lear, 2.4
• "Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind...fortune that arrant *****."

  Fool, 2.4
• "That sir which serves and seeks for gain, and follows but for form, will pack when it begins to rain, and leave thee in the storm."

  Fool, 2.4
• "Where learned you this, Fool?"

  "Not i' th' stocks, fool."

  Lear and Fool, 2.4
• "We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body."

  Lear, 2.4
• "Good morrow to you both."

  "Hail to your grace."

  "I am glad to see your highness."


  Lear, Cornwall, Regan, 2.4
• "Oh, are you free? Some other time for that."


  Lear, 2.4
• "Sharp toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here (points to his heart) ... most serpentlike"


  Lear, 2.4