“Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1.

1. 36 “Although the last, not least. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 1. 85 “Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 1. 92 “Come not between the dragon and his wrath. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 1. 124 “Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1.

1. 97 “I want that glib and oily art To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend, I’ll do’t before I speak. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 1. 27 “A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue That I am glad I have not, though not to have it Hath lost me in your liking. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 1.

230 “Love is not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from the entire point. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 1.

241 “Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 1. 253 “Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 1. 302 “I grow, I prosper; Now, gods, stand up for bastards! – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1.

2. 21″This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! ” William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 2. 132 “Pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy; my cue is villanous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o’ Bedlam. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1.

2. 150 “Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1.

4. 132 “Who is it that can tell me who I am? ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 4. 230 “Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child, Than the sea-monster. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 4. 283 “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it isTo have a thankless child! ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 4.

312 “Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 4. 346 “O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1. 5. 51 “Down, thou climbing sorrow! Thy element’s below. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 2. 4.

57 “O, sir! you are old; Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 2. 4.

148 “Necessity’s sharp pinch! ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 2. 4. 231 “O reason not the need!Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life is cheap as beast’s. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 2. 4. 264 “You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 2.

4. 274 “Let not women’s weapons, water-drops, Stain my man’s cheeks! ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 2. 4. 277 “Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters ‘bove the main, That things might change or cease. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3.

. 4 “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world! Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man! ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 2. 1 “Rumble 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 owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 2.

14 “No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 2.

37 “Marry, here’s grace and a cod-piece; that’s a wise man and a fool. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 2.

40 “Things that love night Love not such nights as these. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 2. 42 “Close pent-up guilts, Rive your concealing continents, and cryThese dreadful summoners grace. I am a man More sinned against than sinning. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3.

2. 57 “The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 2. 70 “He that has a little tiny wit, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, Must make content with his fortunes fit, Though the rain it raineth every day. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 2.

74 “When the mind’s free, The body’s delicate. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4. 11 “Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3.

. 21 “Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4. 28 “Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4.

33 “Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly, and in woman out-paramoured the Turk. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4. 81″Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders’ books, and defy the foul fiend.

– William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4. 96 “‘Tis a naughty night to swim in.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4. 113 “The green mantle of the standing pool. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4.

136 “The prince of darkness is a gentleman. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4. 148 “Poor Tom’s a-cold. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4. 151 “Child Roland to the dark tower came, His word was still, Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 4. 185 “He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath. – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 6. 20 “The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 6. 65 “Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 6.

69 “By the kind gods, ’tis most ignobly done To pluck me by the beard. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 7.

35 “I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3. 7. 55 “Yet better thus, and known to be contemned, Than still contemned and flattered.To be worst, The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune, Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear: The lamentable change is from the best; The worst returns to laughter. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4.

1. 1 “I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 1. 18 “Might I but live to see thee in my touch, I’d say I had eyes again.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 1. 23 “The worst is not, So long as we can say, ‘This is the worst. ‘” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4.

1. 27 “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;They kill us for their sport. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 1.

36 “You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 2. 30 “It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 3. 34 “He was met even now As mad as the vexed sea; singing aloud; Crowned with rank fumitor and furrow weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 4. 1 “Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4.

6. 10 “They told me I was every thing; ’tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, . 6. 107 “Every inch a king. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4.

6. 109 “Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination; there’s money for thee. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 6. 120 “A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief.Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4.

6. 154 “Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw doth pierce it. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 6. 170 “Through tatter’d clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr’d gowns hide all.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 6. 180 “I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester: Thou must be patient; we came crying hither: Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air We waul and cry. ” William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 6. 182 “When we are born we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4.

6. 187 “Mine enemy’s dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4.

7. 36 “Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4.

7. 46″I fear I am not in my perfect mind. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. 7. 63 “Pray you now, forget and forgive.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 4. . 99 “Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5. 2. 9 “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: and 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 walled prison, packs and sets of great onesThat ebb and flow by the moon.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5. 3. 9 “Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense.

” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5. 3. 20 “The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5.

3. 172 “The wheel is come full circle. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5. 3. 176 “Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones: Had I your tongue and eyes, I’d use them so That heaven’s vaults should crack. She’s gone for ever! ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5.

3. 59 “Is this the promised end? ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5. 3. 265 “Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5.

3. 275 “Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5.

3. 314 “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. ” – William Shakespeare, King Lear, 5. 3.

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