Bartlette's Quotations: King Lear.

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1	Although the last, not least.	Act i. Sc. 1.
2	Nothing will come of nothing.	Ibid.
3	Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.	Ibid.
4	I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.	Ibid.
5	A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue As I am glad I have not.	Ibid.
6	Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.	Ibid.
7	As if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.	Sc. 2.
8	That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.	Sc. 4.
9	Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend!	Ibid.
10	How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!	Ibid.
11	Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well.	Ibid.
12	Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow, Thy element 's below.	Act ii. Sc. 4.
13	Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine.	Ibid.
14	Necessity's sharp pinch!	Ibid.
15	Let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks!	Ibid.
16	Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!	Act iii. Sc. 2.
17	I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.	Ibid.
18	A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.	Ibid.
19	There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.	Ibid.
20	Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of justice.	Ibid.
21	I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.	Ibid.
22	Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.	Sc. 4.
23	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?	Ibid.
24	Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.	Ibid.
25	Out-paramoured the Turk.	Ibid.
26	'T is a naughty night to swim in.	Ibid.
27	The green mantle of the standing pool.	Ibid.
28	But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.	Ibid.
29	The prince of darkness is a gentleman.	Ibid.
30	Poor Tom 's a-cold.	Ibid.
31	I 'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.	Ibid.
32	Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still,--Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man.	Ibid.
33	The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.	Sc. 6.
34	Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail.	Ibid.
35	I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.	Sc. 7.
36	The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.	Act iv. Sc. 1.
37	The worst is not So long as we can say, "This is the worst."	Ibid.
38	Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest.	Sc. 3.
39	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.	Sc. 6.
40	Nature 's above art in that respect.	Ibid.
41	Ay, every inch a king.	Ibid.
42	Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.	Ibid.
43	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?	Ibid.
44	Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all.	Ibid.
45	Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire.	Sc. 7.
46	Pray you now, forget and forgive.	Ibid.
47	Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense.	Act v. Sc. 3.
48	The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.	Ibid.
49	Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low,--an excellent thing in woman.	Ibid.
50	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.	Ibid.