King Lear Key quotes

King Lear - Act 1 scene 1

'How, nothing will come of nothing'

King Lear - Act 1 scene 4

'Who is it that can tell me who I am'

King Lear - Act 2 scene 2

'O reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous, allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life as cheap as beast's.'

King Lear - Act 3 scene 2

'Blow winds and crack your cheeks!'

King Lear - Act 3 scene 4

'Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art'

Goneril - Act 1 scene 1

'As much as child e'er loved, or father found a love that makes breath poor and speech unable, beyond all manner of so much I love you'

Goneril - Act 1 scene 1

'You see how full of change his age is. The observation we have made of it hath not been little. He always loved our sister most, and with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off appears too grossly'

Regan - Act 1 scene 1

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself'

Regan - Act 2 scene 2

'You should be ruled and led, by some discretion that discerns your state, better than you yourself'

Edmund - Act 1 scene 2

'Thou, nature art my goddess to thy law, my services are bound'

Edmund - Act 1 Scene 2

'Why brand they us, with base? With baseness? Bastardy? Base, base?'

Edmund - Act 1 Scene 2

'I have heard him oft maintain it to be fit that, sons at a perfect age and fathers declined, the father should be as ward to the son, and the son manage the revenue'

Gloucester Act 1 scene 1

'Though this knave came something saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was hit mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged'

Gloucester Act 3 scene 7

' I would not see thy cruel nails, pluck out his poor old eyes'

Cordelia Act 1 Scene 1

'What shall Cordelia speak? Love and be silent'

Cordelia Act 1 scene 1

'I love your majesty, according to my bond, no more nor less'