King Lear Quotes

Lear: 1... unaccomodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

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Edgar: 1. The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

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Edgar: 1. Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still, -Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man.

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Fool: He's mad, that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath

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Regan: 1. Go, thrust him out at gates, and let him smell His way to Dover.

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Gloucester: I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw:

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Edgar: 1. And worse I may be yet: the worst is not, So long as we can say, This is the worst.

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Gloucester: 1. As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, - They kill us for their sport.

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Albany: 1. You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

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Albany: 1. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile: Filths savour but themselves.

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Lear: Let me have surgeons; I am cut to the brains

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Lear: 1. Ay, every inch a king:

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Lear: 1. A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

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Lear: 1. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.

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Lear: 1. When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools...

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Lear: 1. You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave: - Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

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Lear: 1. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

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Lear: 1. You must bear with me: Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish.

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Edgar: 1. Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all.

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Lear: 1. Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; - And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones That ebb and flow by the moon.

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Edgar: 1. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

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Edmund: 1. The wheel is come full circle: I am here.

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Lear: 1. Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vaults should crack. - She's gone for ever! - I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth.

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Lear: 1. And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button: thank you sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there!

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Kent: 1. Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

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Kent: 1. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go. My master calls me; I must not say no.

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Edgar: 1. The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

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