King Lear Quotes

King Lear Quotes

Tis our fast intent/ To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths/ While we unburthen’d crawl towards death
That future strife may be prevented now
1. reasoning for the degrading Love Test
Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
Nothing will come of nothing, speak again
I loved her most and thought to set my rest on her kind nursery
1. Thy truth then be thy dower
  1. Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides
    1. Insight by Cordelia
    2. Cordelia
  2. You see how full of changes his age is
    1. Goneril
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit
1. Edmund
I am a fool, thou art nothing.
1. Fool
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend/ More hideous when thou shows’t thee in a child”
1. Yet have I left a daughter?
  1. Has he abandoned the one daughter that truly loved him?
2. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/ To have a thankless child
3. Old fond eyes, Beweep this cause again, I’ll pluck ye out
  1. Foolish eyes don't cry or I shall pluck ye out
Oh let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!
I did her wrong

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