Act 1, Scene 1
KENTI thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. (1.1.1-2)
Act 1, Scene 2
EDMUND[…] Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? why 'bastard'? Whe...
Act 1, Scene 3
GONERILPut on what weary negligence you please, You and your fellows. I'll have it come to question. If he dislike it, let him to our sister, Whose mind and mine I know in that are one, Not to be o...
Act 1, Scene 4
FOOL[…] e'er since thou mad'st thy daughters thy mothers. For when thou gav'st them the rod and put'st down thine own breeches, (1.4.176-178)
Act 1, Scene 5
FOOL […] I can tell why a snail has a house. KING LEAR Why? FOOL Why, to put 's head in, not to give it away to his daughters and leave his horns without a case. (1.5.27-31)
Act 2, Scene 2
KENTSir, I am too old to learn. Call not your stocks for me. I serve the king, On whose employment I was sent to you. You shall do small respect, show too bold malice Against the grace...
Act 2, Scene 3
EDGARThe country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars who with roaring voices Strike in their numbed and mortifièd bare arms Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary, And with this...
Act 2, Scene 4
REGANO sir, you are old. Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine. You should be ruled and led By some discretion, that discerns your state Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray...
Act 3, Scene 1
KENT[…] There is division, Although as yet the face of it be covered With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall, Who have—as who have not, that their great stars Throned and set high? […...
Act 3, Scene 2
LEARRumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters. I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom, called you children; You o...
Act 3, Scene 3
EDMUNDThis courtesy forbid thee shall the Duke Instantly know, and of that letter too. This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me That which my father loses—no less than all. The younger rises...
Act 3, Scene 4
KING LEAR Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters! KENT He hath no daughters, sir. KING LEAR Death, traitor! Nothing could have subdued na...
Act 3, Scene 6
EDGAR, asideMy tears begin to take his part so much They'll mar my counterfeiting. (3.6.63-64)
Act 3, Scene 7
CORNWALL I have received a hurt. Follow me, lady.—
Turn out that eyeless villain. Throw this slave Upon the dunghill.—Regan, I bleed apace. Untimely comes this hurt. (3.7.116-119)
Act 4, Scene 1
GLOUCESTER As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; They kill us for their sport. (4.1.41-42)
Act 4, Scene 6
LEARDown from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit; beneath is all the fiends'. There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit...
Act 4, Scene 7
CORDELIA, kissing Lear O, my dear father, restoration hang Thy medicine on my lips, and let this kiss Repair those violent harms that my two sisters Have in thy reverence made. KENT Kind and dear p...
Act 5, Scene 3
EDGAR My name is Edgar, and thy father's son. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes. (5.3.203-207)