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Title: Shakespeare's 'King Lear' key quotes
Description: A list of all the most important and useful quotes from king lear, covering all themes and events of the play so that by only knowing these quotes you will be ready for any question.

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KING  LEAR  QUOTES:  
• Pelican  daughters  
• Tigers  not  daughters  
• Filial  ingratitude    
• Nothing  will  come  of  nothing  
• Who  is  it  that  can  tell  me  who  I  am  
• How  sharper  than  a  serpents  tooth  it  is  to  have  a  thankless  child    
• We  shall  express  out  darker  purpose    
• Which  of  you  shall  we  say  doth  love  us  most  
• Dearer  than  eyesight,  space  and  liberty  
• I  love  your  majesty  according  to  my  bond,  no  more  nor  less  
• With  base?  With  baseness?  Bastardy?  Base,  base?    
• Out  of  my  sight  
• This  tempest  in  my  mind  doth  from  my  senses  take  all  feeling  
• Every  inch  a  king  
• The  body’s  delicate  
• Brother  I  can  advise  you  best  
• Why  came  not  the  slave  to  me  when  I  called  
• Banishes  two  ‘ons  daughters  and  did  the  third  a  blessing  
• How  now  daughter  
• Into  her  womb  convey  sterility  
• This  milky  gentleness  
• let  me  not  be  mad,  not  mad!  
• Thou  whoreson  zed,  thou  unnecessary  letter  
• Lears  shadow  
• My  face  I’ll  grime  with  filth…and  with  presented  nakedness  outface  the  
winds  
• None  but  the  foul  who  labours  to  outjest  his  heart-­‐struck  injuries  
• how  this  mother  swells  up  towards  my  heart  
• Tell  the  hot  duke  that  lear  –  no,  but  not  yet  
• Nature  in  you  stands  on  the  very  verge  
• On  my  knees  I  beg…bed  and  food  
• reason  not  the  need  
• Shut  up  your  doors  my  lord,  tis  a  wild  night  
• Blow  winds,  and  crack  your  cheeks!  Rage,  blow!  
• I  am  a  poor,  weak,  infirm  and  despised  old  man  
• I  am  a  man  more  sinned  against  than  sinning  
• The  younger  rises  when  the  old  doth  fall  
• Off,  off,  you  lendings:  come,  unbutton  here  
• Who  alone  suffers,  suffers  most  in  the  mind  
• Out,  vile  jelly,  where  is  thy  listure  now    
• Filthy  traitors  
• I  shall  see  such  winged  vengeance  
• Poor  old  eyes  
• I  have  no  way,  and  therefor  want  no  eyes:  I  stumbled  when  I  saw  
• As  flies  to  wanton  boys  we  are  to  the  gods,  they  kill  us  for  their  sport  
• Tis  the  times  plague  when  madmen  lead  the  blind  




 



















Be  monster  not  thy  feature  
As  mad  as  the  vexed  sea  and  singing  aloud,  crowned  with  rank  furmiture  
and  furrow  weeds  
When  we  are  born  we  cry  that  we  are  come  to  this  great  stage  of  fools  
Lears  shadow  
Speak  what  we  feel  not  what  we  aught  to  say  
And  my  poor  fool  is  hanged  
Look  on  her:  look,  her  lips,  look  there,  look  there!  
Some  good  I  mean  to  do  despite  mine  own  nature  
I  was  contracted  the  them  both:  all  three  now  marry  in  an  instance  
But  his  flawed  heart…twixt  thhe  extremes  of  passion…burst  smilingly  
The  wheel  is  come  for  circle,  I  am  here  
Jesters  do  oft  prove  prophet  
We  two  alone  will  sing  like  birds  I’the  cage  
We  are  not  the  first  who  with  best  meaning  have  incurred  the  worst    
Ihad  rather  lose  the  battle  than  that  sister  should  loosen  him  and  me    
Forget  and  forgive;  I  am  old  and  foolish  
Child  changed  father    
A  serviceable  villain    
That  thou  hast  power  to  shake  my  manhood  thus  


Title: Shakespeare's 'King Lear' key quotes
Description: A list of all the most important and useful quotes from king lear, covering all themes and events of the play so that by only knowing these quotes you will be ready for any question.