King Lear Quotes

Goneril - Love Test

“I love you more than words can wield the matter”

King Lear

Act 1, Scene 1

“Nothing will come of nothing”

Kent

Act 1, Scene 1

“See better Lear”

Lear

Act 1, Scene 4

“How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child”

Goneril

Act 1, Scene 4

All-licensed fool

The Fool

Act 1, Scene 5

“Thou shouldst not been old till thou hadst been wise”

Edgar

Act 1

“Some villain hath done me wrong”

Edmund

Act 3, Scene 3

“The younger rise when the old doth fall”

Gloucester

Act 4, Scene 1

“I have no way, and therefore want no eyes: I stumbled when I saw”

Goneril

Act 4

“My most dear Gloucester”

Albany

Act 4

“Tigers, Not daughters”

Lear

Act 4, Scene 7

"I am a very foolish, fond old man”

Edmund

Act 5, Scene 3

“The wheel is come full circle, I am here”

Kent

Act 5

“Vex not his ghost, O let him pass”