Richard III Quotes

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War Quotes

Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this son of York; (1.1.1)

Fate and Free Will Quotes

 "I am determined to prove a villain"(1.1.1). 

Time Quotes

Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York;And all the clouds that lour'd upon our houseIn the deep bosom of the ocean buried.Now are our brows bound with victoriou...

Art and Culture Quotes

I am determined to prove a villain (1.1.1)

Manipulation Quotes

GLOUCESTER.Even so; an't please your worship, Brackenbury,You may partake of any thing we say:We speak no treason, man; we say the kingIs wise and virtuous, and his noble queenWell struck in years,...

Justice Quotes

GLOUCESTERAlack, my lord, that fault is none of yours (1.1.3)

Power Quotes

GLOUCESTERWhy, this it is when men are rul'd by women (1.1.4)

Betrayal Quotes

GLOUCESTERSimple, plain Clarence, I do love thee soThat I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,If heaven will take the present at our hands. (1.1.11)

Man and the Natural World Quotes

GLOUCESTERNow is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York;And all the clouds that lowr'd upon our houseIn the deep bosom of the ocean buried. (1.1.1)

Family Quotes

GLOUCESTERPlots have I laid, inductions dangerous,By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams,To set my brother Clarence and the kingIn deadly hate the one against the other;And if King Edward be as...

Gender Quotes

GLOUCESTERWhy, this it is when men are rul'd by women:'Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower;My Lady Gray his wife, Clarence, 'tis sheThat tempers him to this extremity. (1.1.4)