King Lear Act 1 Key Quotes

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ITTKHMATDOATC - Act 1 Scene 1 Kent
I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.
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IHSOBTAHNIABT - Act 1 Scene 1 Gloucester
I have so often blushed to acknowledged him now I am brazed to't.
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DYSAF - Act 1 Scene 1 Gloucester
Do you smell a fault?
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TWMBA - Act 1 Scene 1 Gloucester
The whoreson must be acknowledged.
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HHBONYAAHSA.TKIC - Act 1 Scene 1 Gloucester
He hath been out nine years and away he shall again. The king is coming.
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MWSEODP - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.
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WOYSWSDLUM - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
Which of you shall we say doth love us most.
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DTE,S,AL - Act 1 Scene 1 Goneril
Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty.
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ALTMBPASU - Act 1 Scene 1 Goneril
A love that makes breath poor and speech unable.
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SIAMOTSMAMS - Act 1 Scene 1 Regan
Sir I am made of the self mettle as my sister.
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IASMLMPTMT - Act 1 Scene 1 Cordelia
I am sure my love's more ponderous than my tongue.
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BNOJ,AOLAL - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
But now our joy, although our last and least.
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H,NWCON.SA - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
How, nothing will come of nothing. Speak again.
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ICHMHIMM.ILYMATMB,NMNL - Act 1 Scene 1 Cordelia
I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less.
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HIDAMPC,PAPOB,AASTMHAM - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood, as a stranger to my heart and me.
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BAWN,PAR,ATMSD - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
Be as well neighboured, pitied and relieved, as thou my sometime daughter.
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PK,CNBADAHW - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
Peace Kent, Come not between a dragon and his wrath!
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GML - Act 1 Scene 1 Kent
Good my liege-
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ILHMATTSMROHKN - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
I loved her most and thought to set my rest on her kind nursery.
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WSRTN,AATTAK - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
We shall retain the name, and all th'addition to a king.
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RL,WIHEHAMK,LAMF,AMMF - Act 1 Scene 1 Kent
Royal Lear, whom I have ever honoured as my king, loved as my father, as my master followed.
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TBIBAD;MFTS - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
The bow is bent and drawn;make from the shaft.
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NATE-H,WLSRNH - Act 1 Scene 1 Kent
Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.
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OOMS - Act 1 Scene 1 King Lear
Out of my sight!
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SBL,ALMSRTTBOTE - Act 1 Scene 1 Kent
See better Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye.
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OV,M - Scene 1 King Lear
O vassal! Miscreant!
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HM,R,OTA,HM - Scene 1 King Lear
Hear me, recreant, on thine allegiance, hear me.
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AOTSTTTHBUOK - Scene 1 King Lear
And on the sixth to turn thy hated back upon our kingdom.
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A.BJ,TSNBR - Scene 1 King Lear
Away! By Jupiter, this shall not be revoked.
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TGTTDSTTM - Scene 1 Kent
The gods to their dear shelter take thee maid.
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AYLSMYDA - Scene 1 Kent
And your large speeches may your deeds approve
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FC,TAMRBP - Scene 1 France
Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich being poor.
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PNUOD - Scene 1 Regan
Prescribe not us our duty.
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TTIOHA,YHHEBSKH - Scene 1 Regan
Tis the infirmity of his age, yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.
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HLSOHWBOU - Scene 1 Goneril
His last surrender of his will but offend us.
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WMDS,AI'TH - Scene 1 Goneril
We must do something, and i'the heat.
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IATOFMLOAB.WB.WB? Scene 2 Edmund
I am twelve or fourteen moonshines lag of a brother. Why *******? Wherefore base?
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WB.WB,B.B,B -Scene 2 Edmund
With base? With baseness, bastardy? Base, Base?
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NG,SUFB - Scene 2 Edmund
Now gods, stand up for bastards.
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TQONHNSNTHI - Scene 2 Gloucester
The quality of nothing hath no such need to hide itself.
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H.C.STIWH - Scene 2 Gloucester
Hum! Conspiracy! 'Sleep till I wake him.
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AV.U,D,BV-WTB - Scene 2 Gloucester
Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain - worse than brutish!
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TLEITSAMPNGTU - Scene 2 Gloucester
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.
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F,S,L,M - Scene 2 Edmund
Fa, sol, la, mi.
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LM,INBB,HLBW,AWMMTICFF - Scene 2 Edmund
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit, all with me's meet that i can fashion fit.
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IHD,LHTMS,WMAMIKITAO - Scene 3 Goneril
If he distaste, let him to my sister, whose mind and mine I know in that are one.
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TSHTTWPMIT,TLHTIH,TCWHTIW -Scene 4 Kent
To serve him truly that will put me in trust, to love him that is honest, to converse with him that is wise.
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AAPATK - Scene 4 Kent
And as poor as the king.
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MLF - Scene 4 Oswald
My lady's father.
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YWD,YS,YC - Scene 4 King Lear
You whoreson dog, you slave, you cur!
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SYWBTMC - Scene 4 Fool
Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.
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TADTMTK - Scene 4 Fool
Truths a dog that must to kennel.
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LMTTT - Scene 4 Fool
Learn more than thou trowest.
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ATOTTHGA - Scene 4 Fool
All thy other titles thou hast given away.
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THMWFST,THMWFL,ASIAWFHMP - Scene 4 Fool
They'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt have me whipped for lying, and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace.
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HND.WMTFO - Scene 4 King Lear
How no daughter? What makes that frontlet on?
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[PTL]TASP - Scene 4 fool
[Points to Lear] That's a shelled peascod.
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DLWT,ST.WAHE - Scene 4 King Lear
Does Lear walk thus, speak thus? Where are his eyes?
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LS - Scene 4 Fool
Lear's shadow.
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DB - Scene 4 King Lear
Degenerate *******.
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** - PMH - Scene 4 King Lear
Speak, sir - Prepare my horses.
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HUDTICS, WLAEWMFON - Scene 4 King Lear
How ugly did thou in Cordelia show, which like an engine wrenched my frame of nature.
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OL,L,L[SHH] - Scene 4 King Lear
O Lear, Lear, Lear! [Striking his head].
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HSTASTIITHATC - Scene 4 King Lear
How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child.
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IPYO,ACYWTWTYL - Scene 4 King Lear
I'll pluck ye out, and cast you with the waters that you loose.
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ICBSP,G,TTGLIBY- - Scene 4 Albany
I cannot be so partial, Goneril, to the great love I bear you-
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HFYEMPICT,STBOWMWW - Scene 4 Albany
How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell, Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
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SALTAACLAA - Scene 5 Fool
She's as like this as a crab's like an apple.
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TTAP - MI - Scene 5 King Lear
To take't again perforce - monster ingratitude.
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OLMNBM,NM,SH - Scene 5 King Lear
O let me not be mad, be mad, sweet heaven!
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