KING LEAR
Act 1, Scene 1
“We shall express our darker purpose”
“You shall we say doth love us most”
“Our joy”
“Nothing will come of nothing”
“Mend your speech a little”
“I disclaim all my paternal care”
“Come not between a dragon and his wrath”
“Her price is fall’n”
“Better thou/ Hadst not been born, than not t’have pleased me better”
Act 1, Scene 4
“my lord’s knave? You whoreson dog, you slave, you cur!”
“my boy”
“Take heed, sirrah- the whip”
“Are you our daughter?”
“Does anyone here know me? This is not Lear.”
“Where are his eyes?”
“Degenerate bastard”
“Detested kite”
“And from her derogate body never spring/A babe to honour her”
“Thankless child!”
“Old fond eyes/ Beweep this cause again, I’ll pluck ye out”
Act 1, Scene 5
“I did her wrong”
“O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!”
Act 2, Scene 4
“tis worse than murder”
“Who put my man i' the stocks?”
“respect such violent outrange”
“Where is this daughter?”
“Fetch me a better answer”
“My rising heart! But down!”
“Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture”
SD: “[He kneels]”
“scornful eyes! Infect her beauty”
“O heavens”
“do not make me mad… my child”
“my daughter - /Or rather a disease that’s in my flesh”
“wicked creatures”
“patience I need!”
“you unnatural hags”
“I will have such revenges on you both”
“the terrors of the earth”
“I shall go mad”
“this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws”
Act 3, Scene 2
“Strike flat the thick rotundity o’th’ world”
“Here, I stand your slave/ A poor, infirm, weak and despise old man”
“I’ll be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing”
“I am a man/ More sinned against than sinning”
“Art cold? I am cold myself”
“Poor fool and knave”
Act 3, Scene 4
“Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all!-/ O, that way madness lies; let
me shun that!”
“Poor naked wretches”
“Pitiless storm”
“Those pelican daughters”
“is man no more than this”
Act 3, Scene 6
“let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds about her heart”
“Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?”
Act 4, Scene 6
“Ha! Goneril with a white beard? They flattered me like a dog”
“Ay, every inch a king!”
“Gloucester’s bastard son/ Was kinder to his father than my daughters”
“Down from the waist they are centaurs,/ Though women all above”
“smells of mortality”
“I am even/ The natural fool of Fortune”
“kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill”
“I am a king, my masters”
Act 4, Scene 7
“You are a spirit”
“I am mightily abused”
“Pray do not mock me;/ I am a very foolish fond old man”
“I am mainly ignorant”
“If you have poison for me, I will drink it”
“I am old and foolish”
Act 5, Scene 3
[Enter LEAR with CORDELIA in his arms] “She’s dead as earth”
“she lives… it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows”
“I killed the slave that was a- hanging thee”
“Mine eyes are not o’th’best, I’ll tell you straight”
“He’s a good fellow” (Caius/Kent)
“And my poor fool is hanged!”
