Richard II (play) Quotes and Quotation
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by William Shakespeare
- Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster, (King Richard, I.i)
- They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain. (Gaunt, II.i)
- This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by Nature for herself against infection and the hand of war, this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in the silver sea, which serves it in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house, against the envy of less happier lands, this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, this nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, (Gaunt, II.i)
- Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm from an anointed king; the breath of worldly men cannot depose the deputy elected by the Lord. (King Richard, III.ii)
- Of comfort no man speak: let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; let's choose executors and talk of wills: and yet not sofor what can we bequeath save our deposed bodies to the ground? (King Richard, III.ii)
- For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings: how some have been depos'd, some slain in war, some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd, some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd; all murder'd: for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king keeps Death his court. (King Richard, III.ii)
- I am greater than a king; for when I was a king, my flatterers were then but subjects; being now a subject, I have a king here to my flatterer. Being so great, I have no need to beg. (Richard, IV.i)
- But soft, but see, or rather do not see, my fair rose wither: yet look up, behold, that you in pity may dissolve to dew, and wash him fresh again with true-love tears. (Queen, V.i)
- As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next. (York, V.ii)
- Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves that they are not the first of fortune's slaves, nor shall not be the last (Richard, V.v)
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