King+Lear+Key+Quotes


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Lear__**
 * "Know that we have divided in three our Kingdom and tis our fast intention to shake all cares and business from our age conferring them on younger strengths"
 * "Nothing will come of nothing"
 * "Peace, Kent! Come not between the dragon and its wrath...out of my sight"
 * "Where is my fool?"
 * "You unnatural hags, I will have revenges on you both"
 * "But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter; Or rather a disease that's in my flesh, which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil, a plague-sore, or embosed carbunkle, in my corrupted blood"
 * "I am a man more sinned against than sinning"
 * "I am a very foolish, fond old man...I fear I am not in my perfect mind"
 * "They flattered me like a dog, and told me I had the white hairs on my beard ere the black ones were there. To say 'ay' and 'no' to everything that I said 'ay' and no to was no good divinity"
 * "If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know you do not love me; for your sisters have, as I do remember, done me wrong: You have some cause, they have not"
 * "We two alone will sing like birds i'th'cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, and ask of thee forgiveness"
 * "And my poor fool is Hang'd No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all"

__**Kent**__
 * "Let me remain the true blank of thine eye"
 * "Fortune, good-night! Smile once more; turn thy wheel"
 * "Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! He hates him that would upon the rack of this tough world stretch him out longer"


 * __Cordelia__**
 * "I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love thee according to my bond"
 * "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides...well may you prosper"


 * __The Fool__**
 * "Thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gavest the golden one away"
 * "Then they for sudden joy did weep, And I for sorrow sung, That such a King should play bo-peep And go the fools among"
 * "Thou gavest them the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches"
 * "Now thou art an O without a figure: I am better than thou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing"
 * "they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace
 * "I can tell why a snail has a house to put its head in; not to give it away to his daughters and leave his horns without a case"
 * "It a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in danger of kibes?...thy wits shall not go slipshod"
 * "For you know, nuncle, the hedy sparrow fed the cuckoo so long that it had its head bit off by its young"
 * "Thou shouldst have been old till thou hadst been wise"
 * "And I'll go to bed at noon"


 * __Gloucester__**
 * "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport"
 * "I stumbled when I saw"


 * __Edgar__**
 * "Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say"