KING LEAR QUOTES

ACT 1:
SCENE 1:
 “The division of the kingdom” Gloucester
 “Which of you shall we say doth love us most?” Lear
 “Nothing will come of nothing.” Lear
 “I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less.”
Cordelia
 “I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of
blood.” Lear
 “I loved her most.” Lear
 “When power to flattery bows?” Kent
 “Better thou hadst not been born than not to have pleased me
better.” Lear
 “Use well our father… I would prefer him to a better place.”
Cordelia
 “He hath ever but slenderly known himself.” Regan
SCENE 2:
 “Had he a hand to write this, a heart and a brain to breed in it?”
Gloucester
 “Abhorred villain, unnatural, detested, brutish villain”
Gloucester
 “…that so tenderly and entirely loves him.” Gloucester
 “…go armed.” Edmund
SCENE 3:
 “Idle old man, that still would manage those authorities that he
hath given away.” Goneril
SCENE 4:
 “All thy other titles thou hast given away.” The Fool
  “O most small fault.” Lear
SCENE 5:
 “I did her wrong” Lear
 “Let me not be mad… I will not be mad” Lear
ACT 2:
SCENE 1:
 “I’ll work the means to make thee capable!” Gloucester
 “I never got him” Gloucester
 “O madam, my old heart is cracked, is cracked” Gloucester
SCENE 4:
 “I gave you all” Lear
ACT 3:
SCENE 2:
 “A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man” Lear
 “I am a man more sinned against than sinning” Lear
SCENE 4:
 “I lov’e him, friend, no father his son dearer” Gloucester