King Lear and Oedipus Rex Themed Quotes

Blindness/Sight:

Act 1, Scene 1 (Blindness to truth)

• "I love you dearer than eyesight" - Gonerill 
• "Here I disclaim all my paternal care" - Lear
• "Out of my sight!" - Lear
• "See better Lear, and let me still remain in the true blank of thine eye" - Kent
• "I have no such daughter (...) Nor shall I ever see that face of hers again" - Lear
• "With washed eyes Cordelia leaves you" - Cordelia

Act 3, Scene 7 (Physical blindness)

• "Pluck out his eyes" - Gonerill
• "Lest it see more, prevent it. Out! vile jelly!" - Cornwall
• "I have a letter guessingly sent down, which came from one that's of a neutral heart, and not from one opposed." - Gloucester
• "But I shall see the winged vengeance overtake such children." - Gloucester
• (Cornwall pulls out one of Gloucester's eyes)
• "You have one eye left to see some mischief on him"- Servant
• "All dark and comfortless" - Gloucester

Act 4, Scene 5 (Blindness to kindness? Lear's blindness through madness)

• "Mehinks y'are better spoken." - Gloucester
• "This world I do renounce, and in your sights shake patiently my great affliction off." - Gloucester
• "Look up a-height"/"Alack, I have no eyes" - Edgar/Gloucester
• "For Gloucester's ******* son was kinder to his father than my daughters" - Lear
• "I remember thine eyes well enough" - Lear
• "I see it feelingly" - Gloucester

OTK:

• "That is because you are blind to what I can see" - Teiresias
• "You have eyes but cannot see your own corruption" - Teiresias
• "I know everything that you are suffering" - Oedipus
• "You have committed terrible crimes against those closest to you." - Oedipus
• "His own guilt and suffering were too great for his eyes to see it." - Tierisias
• "Dark now, all dark" - Oedipus

Duty:

Act 1, Scene 1. Act 1, Scene 2. Act 2, Scene 1. Act 5, Scene 1. (Edmond's duty to himself/appearing as if deserving duty/false duty)

• "I have so often blushed to acknowledge him" - Gloucester
• "Why *******? Wherefore base?" - Edmond
• "I grow, I prosper, now gods stand up for *******s!" - Edmond
• "Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means to make thee capable" - Gloucester
• "Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Neither?" - Edmond
• "Neither can be enjoyed if both remain alive?" - Edmond

Act 1, Scene 1. Act 1, Scene 4. Act 3, Scene 4. (Lear's duty to realm as duty to himself/realisation of duty)

• "Tis of fast intent to shake all cares and business from our age" - Lear
• "Which of you shall we say doth love us most?" - Lear
• "Here I disclaim all paternal care" - Lear
• "How ugly didst thou Cordelia show" - Lear
• "O I have ta'en too little care of this" - Lear
• "Nothing could have subdued nature to such a lowness but his unkind daughters" - Lear

Act 1, Scene 1. Act 4, Scene 6. Act 5, Scene 3. (Cordelia's duty to truth/purity)

• "Unhappy as I am, I cannot heave my heart…