King Lear Quotes - Final Exam

“If our father would sleep till I waken him, you should enjoy half his revenue forever and live the beloved of your brother Edgar”

EDMUND

“Now gods, stand up for bastards!”

EDMUND

“Loyal and natural boy, I’ll work the means / To make thee capable.”

GLOUCESTER

“Why have my sisters husbands, if they say they love you all?”

CORDELIA

“No blown ambition doth our arms incite / But love, dear love, and our aged father’s right”

CORDELIA

“Fetch forth the stocks, ho!--- / You stubborn, ancient knave, you reverend braggart / We'll teach you."

CORNWALL)

“I am a man / More sinned against than sinning.”

LEAR

"Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me, / the king my old master must be relieved"

GLOUCESTER

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

FOOL

“The tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else / Save what beats there: filial ingratitude. /…But I will punish home. / No, I will weep no more”

LEAR

“Nothing could have subdued nature / To such a lowness but his unkind daughters”

LEAR

"One way I like this well. / But being widow, and my Gloucester with her, / May all the building in my fancy pluck / Upon my hateful life."

GONERIL

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

GLOUCESTER

“This is the excellent foppery of the world that when we are sick in fortune… we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon, and stars…and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on”

Edmund