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Key Quotes from King Lear:

• "Nothing will come of nothing." (Lear, Act I, Scene I)

• "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!" (Lear, Act I, Scene IV)

• "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound." (Edmund, Act I, Scene II)

• "I am a man / More sinned against than sinning." (Lear, Act III, Scene II)

• "The wheel is come full circle: I am here." (Edmund, Act V, Scene III)

• "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; / They kill us for their sport." (Gloucester, Act IV, Scene I)

• "The worst is not / So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.'" (Edgar, Act IV, Scene I)

• "When we are born, we cry that we are come / To this great stage of fools." (Lear, Act IV, Scene VI)

• "Reason not the need!" (Lear, Act II, Scene IV)

• "The weight of this sad time we must obey; / Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say." (Edgar, Act V, Scene III)

• "O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! / Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!" (Lear, Act I, Scene V)

• "Out, vile jelly!" (Cornwall, Act III, Scene VII)

• "I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course." (Gloucester, Act III, Scene VII)

• "The art of our necessities is strange, / That can make vile things precious." (Lear, Act III, Scene II)

• "Cordelia: Love, and be silent." (Cordelia, Act I, Scene I)

• "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices / Make instruments to plague us." (Edgar, Act V, Scene III)