| “Help! Ho murder! Help!” | Edmund |
| “I pray you father being weak told you so. I pray you being weak saying so.” | Regan |
| “Bringing the murderous.” | Gloucester |
| “I gave you all.” | Lear (to Regan/Goneril) |
| “Oh reason, not the greed” | Lear |
| “You stubborn ancient nave.” | Cornwall |
| “Draw your horseman.” | Kent |
| “Shut up your doors.” | Cornwall |
| “On my knees I beg.” | Lear |
| “No you enteral hags.” | Lear (to Regan/Goneril) |
| “Thou art the disease in my flesh” | Lear (to Regan/Goneril) |
| “Stands in some.” | Lear |
| “I’ll preserve myself.” | Edgar |
| “Infect her beauty.” | Lear |
| “I shall serve you sir.” | Edmund (to Cornwall) |
| “Which can pursue the offender.” | Regan |
| “Persuade me to the murder of your Lordship.” | Edmund |
| “Oh sir you are old, you should be fed and lead.” | Regan |
| “Anger hath a privilege.” | Kent |
| “Edmund, I see you should…” | Cornwall |
| “He is coming hither.” | Edmund |
| “Edgar’ I am nothing.” | Edgar |
| “He dies that strikes again.” | Cornwall |
| “The injuries that those procure.” | Regan |
| “His the duke’s pleasure.” | Gloucester |
| “…Horses are tied by the head, men by the legs…” | Fool |
| “Who put my man i’ the stocks.” | Lear (‘my man’ is Kent) |
| “My old heart is cracked; it’s cracked.” | Gloucester |
| “Nothing almost sees miraclesBut misery.” | Kent |
| “I will preserve myself, and am bethoughtTo take the basest and most poorest shapeThat ever penury in contempt of manBrought near to beast.” | Edgar |
| “O, reason not the need! Our basest beggarsAre in the poorest thing superfluous.Allow not nature more than nature needs,Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.” | Lear |
| “O sir, you are old.Nature I you stands on the very vergeOf his confine.” | Regan (to Lear) |
| “O heavensIf you do love old men, if your sweet swayAllow obedience, if you yourselves are old,Make it your cause. Send down and take my part.” | Lear |
King Lear Act 2 Quiz Quotes (Otsuka)
July 9, 2019