Kent on approaching War | “from France there comes a power/ Into this scattered kingdom” |
Lear evoking the storm | “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!” |
Lear on his decline in status | “A poor, infirm, weak, despised old man” |
The pain Lear’s children have inflicted on him | “Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters, I tax you not…with unkindness, I never gave you kingdom” |
Lear’s opinion of his wrong doing | “I am a man more sinned against than sinning” |
Lear’s sympathy for the fool | “How dost, my boy, art cold?” |
Edmund manipulating and pretending to be on team G | “Most savage and unnatural!” |
Gloucester’s secret plan | “my charity be not of him percieved…If i die for it, as no less is threatened me’ |
Edmund happy to usurp | “The young rises when the old does fall” |
Lear about his daughters on the heath | “filial ingratitude” |
Lear’s thoughts about his daughters shutting him out | In such a night to shut me out? Pour on; I will endure” |
Lear on his work as King | o! I have ta’en too little care of this. |
Edgar pretending to be mad | “whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame” |
animal imagery Goneril and Reagan | “’twas this flesh begot/Those pelican daughters “ |
Lear going mad, takes off clothes | “Off, off you lendings! Come; unbutton here.” |
Gloucester on why he’s helping Lear | “My duty cannot suffer T’obey in all your daughters’ hard commands” |
Lear’s opinion of poor Tom | “Noble philosopher, your company” |
Edmund on why he is turning in Gloucester | “nature thus gives way to loyalty” “I will preserve in my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood” |
Edmund on Gloucester’s treason | “O heavens! this treason were not, or not I the detector” “How malicious is my fortune” |
Cornwall showing lack of care for truth and justice | “True or false, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester” |
Kent thanks Gloucester for farm house | “The Gods reward your kindness!” |
Edgar at trial | “Let us deal justly” |
Fool upon seeing “Goneril” (my second favourite quote in the play) | “Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool” |
Lear on Regan | “Let them anatomize Regan” |
Fools last line in play | “And I’ll go to bed at noon” |
Gloucester telling them to go to Dover | “Take up thy master…Take up, take up” |
Edgar feeling sorry for Lear | “How light and portable my pain seems now…He childed as I fathered!” |
Regan on what to do with Gloucester | “Hang him instantly” |
Goneril on what to do with Gloucester | “pluck out his eyes” |
Gloucester being polite | “What means your graces? good my friends” |
Regan on Gloucesters age | [plucks his beard] So white, and such a traitor!” |
Repitition increases interrogation tention | “Wherefore to Dover?” |
The start of Gloucester’s depression | “Give me some help! O cruel! O you Gods!” |
Servant 1 | “better service have I never done you Than now to bid you hold” |
Regan to servant 1 | [takes sword and runs at him] |
Cornwall removing eyes | “Out, vile jelly” |
Gloucester with no eyes | “all dark and comfortless…O my follies! Then Edgar was abused” |
Regan when Gloucester has no eyes | “Let him smell his way to Dover” |
Servant 3 | “I’ll fetch some flax and white of eggs” |
King Lear Quotations Act 3
July 19, 2019