KING LEAR GOING MAD QUOTES

“O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!” – Act 1, Scene 5

“I am a man more sinned against than sinning.” – Act 3, Scene 2

“Treason! Treason! Treason!” – Act 3, Scene 4

“I will do such things – what they are yet I know not – but they shall be the terrors of the earth!” – Act 4, Scene 6

“O, let me kiss that hand! Let me wipe it first. It smells of mortality.” – Act 4, Scene 6

“I am a very foolish fond old man, fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.” – Act 4, Scene 7

“This is a slave whose easy-borrowed pride dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows. Out, varlet!” – Act 4, Scene 6

“Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, and thou no breath at all?” – Act 5, Scene 3

“Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!” – Act 3, Scene 4

“I fear I am not in my perfect mind.” – Act 4, Scene 7

“O, let me kiss that hand! Let me wipe it first. It smells of mortality.” – Act 4, Scene 6

“O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!” – Act 1, Scene 5

“O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous.” – Act 2, Scene 4

“And take upon’s the mystery of things as if we were God’s spies.” – Act 5, Scene 1 QUOTE ABOUT NOT JUDGING IN THE BIBLE

“Through tatter’d clothes small vices do appear; robes and furr’d gowns hide all.” – Act 4, Scene 6

“A man may see how this world goes with no eyes.” – Act 4, Scene 6

“We two alone will sing like birds in the cage.” – Act 5, Scene 3

“I will have such revenges on you both that all the world shall –I will do such things – what they are yet I know not – but they shall be the terrors of the earth!” – Act 4, Scene 6

“No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison: 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: So 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 wall’d prison, packs and sects of great ones, that ebb and flow by the moon.” – Act 5, Scene 3

“I’ll talk a word with this same learned Theban.” – Act 3, Scene 4

“Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that my own tears do scald like molten lead.” – Act 4, Scene 7

“You are a spirit, I know: when did you die?” – Act 4, Scene 7

“No, I will weep no more. In such a night, to shut me out! Pour on, I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave you all-” – Act 3, Scene 4

“You think I’ll weep. No, I’ll not weep: I have full cause of weeping; but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I’ll weep. O Fool, I shall go mad!” – Act 2, Scene 4

“I will endure; I will bear it patiently, yet I know that I am mad. I shall become sane again.” – Act 3, Scene 4

“O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper, I would not be mad!” – Act 1, Scene 5