King Lear (1970)

Alan Webb: Gloucester

Quotes 

• Gloucester : These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked between child and father. We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves.

• Gloucester : Villain, villain! Unnatural, brutish villain!

• Regan : Ingrateful fox!

  Cornwall : O filthy traitor!

  Gloucester : What mean your graces? Good my friends, consider, You are my guests.

• Gloucester : The trick of that voice I do well remember: Is 't not the king?

  King Lear : Ay, every inch a king: When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery? Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No: The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly, Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive!

• Gloucester : O, let me kiss that hand!

  King Lear : Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.