Richard III Act 1 Scene 1 Quotes
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Act 1 S1 (lines 1-4)
(Richard) 'Now is the winter of our discontent/ Made glorious summer by this son of York/ And all the clouds that loured upon our house/In the deep bosom of the ocean buried'
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A1 S1 (line 9)
(Richard) 'Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front'
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A1 S1 (lines 12-13)
(Richard) 'He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber/ To the lascivious pleasing of a lute'
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A1 S1 (line 14)
(Richard) 'But I that am not shaped for sportive tricks'
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A1 S1 (line 16)
(Richard) 'I that am rudely stamped and want love's majesty'
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A1 S1 (line 17)
(Richard) 'To strut before a wanton ambling nymph'
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A1 S1 (lines 19-21)
(Richard) 'Cheated of feature by dissembling nature/ Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time/ Into this breathing world scarce half made up'
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A1 S1 (line 23)
(Richard) 'dogs bark at me as I halt by them'
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A1 S1 (line 24)
(Richard) 'weak piping time of peace'
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A1 S1 (lines 28 & 30)
(Richard) 'And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover .... I am determined to prove a villain'
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A1 S1 (line 32)
(Richard) 'Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous'
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A1 S1 (lines 34- 35)
(Richard) 'To set my brother Clarence and the king/ In deadly hate the one against the other'
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A1 S1 (lines 36- 37)
(Richard) 'if King Edward be as true and just/ As I am subtle, false and treacherous'
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A1 S1 (line 38)
(Richard) [about Clarence] 'closely mewed up'
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A1 S1 (lines 39-40)
(Richard) 'About a prophecy which says that 'G'/ Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.'
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A1 S1 (line 41)
(Richard) 'Dive, thoughts, down to my soul, here Clarence comes.'
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A1 S1 (line 50)
(Richard) 'you should be new Christened in the Tower'
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A1 S1 (line 58)
(Clarence) 'for my name of George begins with 'G' '
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A1 S1 (line 62)
(Richard) 'this it is when men are ruled by women'
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A1 S1 (lines 64-65)
(Richard) 'My lady Grey, his wife, Clarence, 'tis she/ That tempts him to this harsh extremity'
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A1 S1 (line 70)
(Richard) ' We are not safe, Clarence, we are not safe'
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A1 S1 (lines 71-2)
(Clarence) 'I think there is no man secrue/ But the queen's kindred'
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A1 S1 (line 81)
(Richard) [about Queen Elizabeth] 'The jealous, o'er worn widow herself'
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A1 S1 (lines 93- 94)
(Richard) 'Shore's wife hath a pretty foot/ A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue'
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A1 S1 (line 106-7)
(Richard) 'We are the queen's abjects and must obey./Brother, farewell. I will unto the king'
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A1 S1 (line 111)
(Richard) ' this deep disgrace in brotherhood'
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A1 S1 (line 113)
(Clarence) 'I know it pleaseth neither of us well'
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A1 S1 (lines 114- 115)
(Richard) 'your imprisonment shall not be long/ I will deliever you or else lie for you... have patience'
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A1 S1 (line 118)
(Richard) 'Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return'
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A1 S1 (lines 119- 121)
(Richard) 'Simple, plain Clarence, I do love thee so/ That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven/ If heaven will take the present at our hands'
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A1 S1 (lines 133-4)
(Hastings) 'More pity that eagles should be mewed/ While kites and buzzards play at liberty'
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A1 S1 (line 136)
(Hastings) 'The king is sickly, weak, and melancholy'
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A1 S1 (line 141)
(Richard) 'Oh, he hath kept and evil diet long... Tis very grievous to be thought upon'
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A1 S1 (lines 146-147)
(Richard) 'He cannot live, I hope, and must not die/ Till George be packed with post-horse up to heaven'
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A1 S1 (line 153)
'leave the world for me to bustle in ! '
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A1 S1 (line 154-5)
'I'll marry Warkwick's youngest daughter/ What though I killed her husband and her father?'
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A1 S1 (line 161)
(Richard) 'But yet I run before my horse to market'
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A1 S1 (lines 162-3)
(Richard) 'Clarence still breathes, Edward still lives and reigns/ When they are gone, then must I count my gains'
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A1 S1 (lines 156-7)
(Richard) 'The readiest way to make the wench amends/ Is to become her husband and her father'
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
A1 S1 (line 9)
Back
(Richard) 'Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front'
Card 3
Front
A1 S1 (lines 12-13)
Back
Card 4
Front
A1 S1 (line 14)
Back
Card 5
Front
A1 S1 (line 16)
Back
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