"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"
Lear
Kent
Cordelia
The Fool
Gloucester
Edgar