Quotes from work

Richard III

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”

“Off with his head!”

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

“Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.”

“Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
And all their ministers attend on him.”

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell;
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.”

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe”

“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”

“I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”

“And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”

“Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”

“In thy foul throat thou liest.”