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Summary Key quotes from king lear
These notes include a summary of key quotes from every act in King Lear. I used these notes at A-Level and got an A!
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King Lear➔ “I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
➔ “I fear I am not in my perfect mind”
➔ “Howl, howl, howl, howl, O you are men of stones”
➔ “Yet I have left a daughter”
➔ “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools”
➔ “Blow winds and crack your cheeks”
Goneril & Regan
➔ “I love thee more than words can wield the matter”
➔ “Same self mettle as my sister”
➔ “Let us hit together”
➔ “Till noon? Till night … all night”
➔ “You are old and reverend”
➔ “Why should my sister write to him”
➔ “Hang him instantly … pluck out his eyes”
➔ “Let him smell his way to dover”
Cordelia
➔ “Love and be silent”
➔ “I love thee according to thy bond”
➔ “Be aident and remediate”
➔ “Her tears were like a better way … like pearls”
Gloucester
➔ “Abhorred villain”
➔ “I shall not need spectacles”
➔ “I would not see thy cruel nails pluck out his poor old eyes”
➔ As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport”
➔ “We must incline to the king”
Kent
➔ “Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least”
➔ “Hideous rashness”
➔ “See better lear”
➔ “Fortune … turn thy wheel”
➔ “O vex not his ghost”
➔ “I have a journey shortly to go”
➔ “Alls cheerless, dark and deadly”
➔ “That would upon the rack of this world stretch him out longer”
Fool
➔ “Thou madest thy daughters thy mothers”
➔ “Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind, but fathers that bear bags shall see their children kind”
➔ “Nuncle”
➔ “Ill go to bed at noon”
Edmund
➔ “Stand up for bastards”
➔ “Dull, stale, tired bed”
➔ “Yours in the ranks of death”
➔ “To both these sisters I have sworn my love”
➔ “The wheel has come full circle”
➔ “Some good I mean to do, despite thine nature”
➔ “My writ is on the life of lear and cordelia”
Edgar
➔ “Edgar nothing I am”
➔ “Poor tom!”
➔ “My tears … they'll mar my counterfeiting”
➔ “Shall never see so much nor live so long”
Albany
➔ “Goodness to the vile seem vile”
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