You think you can tell the Fool’s keen wit from the rantings of a mad king? This King Lear Quotes Quiz will tell you if you really know the voices of the heath or if you’re just guessing. Right now, test your ear for Shakespeare’s dialogue.
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King Lear Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Nothing will come of nothing.”
- “See better, Lear; and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye.”
- “Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law my services are bound.”
- “Come not between the dragon and his wrath.”
- “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
- “The prince of darkness is a gentleman.”
- “I am a man more sinned against than sinning.”
- “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
- “The younger rises when the old doth fall.”
- “O, reason not the need!”
- “Out, vile jelly! Where is thy lustre now?”
- “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.”
- “The wheel is come full circle; I am here.”
- “Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither.”
- “O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!”
- “The weight of this sad time we must obey.”
- “The worst is not so long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’”
- “Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel.”
- “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
- “Nothing almost sees miracles but misery.”
- “The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.”
- “Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”
- “Wilt break my heart?”
- “Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.”
- “When thou clovest thy crown i’ the middle and gav’st away both parts.”
- “O sir, to wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.”
- “I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw.”
- “When majesty falls to folly.”
- “The art of our necessities is strange and can make vile things precious.”
- “Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?”