Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: Richard II

  • Condemnations

    Condemnations

    O villains, vipers, damn’d without redemption!
    Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!
    Snakes, in my heart-blood warm’d, that sting my heart!

    –Richard II,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • Fizzle

    Fizzle

    His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
    For violent fires soon burn out themselves.

    –Richard II,
    Act II, Scene i

  • March 6

    True Treasure

    A jewel in a ten-times-barr’d-up chest
    Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.

    –Richard II,
    Act I, Scene i

  • Easy Pickings

    Easy Pickings

    The ripest fruit first falls.

    –Richard II,
    Act I, Scene i

  • January 4

    Treasure Friendship

    I count myself in nothing else so happy
    As in a soul remembering my good friends.

    –Richard II,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • False to the Core

    You Are False to the Core

    As low as to thy heart,
    Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest.

    –Richard II,
    Act I, Scene i

  • Player’s Poem

    Player’s Poem

    ‘This man’s untrue,’
    And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;
    Heard where his plants in others’ orchards grew,
    Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;
    Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;
    Thought characters and words merely but art,
    And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.

    –A Lover’s Complaint