Themed King Lear Quotes
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- Created on: 29-03-14 11:33
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- King Lear Quotes
- Love
- Goneril: 'Sir I love you more than word can wield the matter'
- Cordelia: 'What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent.'
- Regan: 'I find she names my very deed of love; Only she comes to short'
- Cordelia: 'I cannot heave my heart into my mouth'
- Kent: 'Royal Lear, whom I have ever honour'd as my king, loved as my father'
- France: Loves not love when its mingled with regards aloof from th' entire point
- Loyalty
- Cordelia: 'Obey you, Love you and most honor you'
- Kent: 'Thy master, whom thou lovest, shall find the full of labors'
- Edmund: Edmund the base, shall top the legitimate. I grow, I prosper'
- Gloucester: 'The king my old master, must be relived
- Kent- 'I am the very man...That from your first of difference and decay, have follow'd your sad steps'
- Legitimacy
- Edmund: 'Well then legitimate Edgar, I must have your land!'
- Edmund: 'Now, Gods, Stand up for bastards'
- Edmund- 'Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit'
- Gloucester- 'I have so often blush'd to acknowlege him, that now I am braz'd to it.'
- Sight
- Goneril- 'Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty'
- Lear- 'Hence, and avid my sight'
- Lear- 'Dart your blinding flames into her sconful eyes!'
- Lear- 'A man may see how this world goes with no eyes'
- Gloucester- 'I have no way, and therefore want no eyes'
- Gloucester- ''Tis times' plague when madmen lead the blind'
- Justice
- Cordelia- 'Time will unfold what plighted cunning hides'
- Edmund- 'The curiosity of nations to deprive me'
- Lear-'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!'
- Lear- 'And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!'
- Lear- 'Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?'
- Lear- 'Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?'
- Foolishness
- Lear- 'I am old and foolish.'
- Kent- 'In thy best consideration, check this hideous rashness'
- Gloucester- 'Oh! Dear son Edgar, The food of thy abused fathers rath'
- Lear- 'I fear I am not in my perfect mind'
- Lear- 'Ill kneel down, and ask thee forgiveness'
- Divine Order
- Gloucester- 'As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport'
- Lear- 'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!'
- Lear- 'Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, the gods themselves throw incense.'
- Lear- 'The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.'
- Kent- 'Now, by Apollo, king, thou swear'st thy gods in vain.'
- Lear- 'Away! By Jupiter, this shall not be revok'd'
- Animal Imagery
- Lear- 'Wolfish visage' (in reference to Goneril)
- Lear- 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!'
- Gloucester- 'Rash boarish fangs' (to Regan)
- Fool- 'The hedge-sprrow fed the cuckoo so long, that it's had it head bitten off by the young.'
- Lear- 'Come not between the dragon and his wrath.'
- Edmund- 'Each jealous of the other as the stung is of the Adder.
- Lear- 'Ingratitude...more hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, than any sea-monster.'
- Love
- Gloucester: 'The king my old master, must be relived
- Edmund: Edmund the base, shall top the legitimate. I grow, I prosper'
- Edmund: 'Why they rand us with base? With basness? Bastardy? base, base'
- Legitimacy
- Edmund: 'Well then legitimate Edgar, I must have your land!'
- Edmund: 'Now, Gods, Stand up for bastards'
- Edmund- 'Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit'
- Legitimacy
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