Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: Richard II

  • Foundational

    Foundational

    Love loving not itself none other can.

    –Richard II,
    Act V, Scene iii

  • 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

  • Exposed

    Exposed

    His treasons will sit blushing in his face,
    Not able to endure the sight of day,
    But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.

    –Richard II,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • One Kiss

    One Kiss

    One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part;
    Thus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart.

    —-Richard II,
    Act IV, Scene iv

  • October 18

    Honor

    Mine honour is my life; both grow in one:
    Take honour from me, and my life is done.

    –Richard II,
    Act I, Scene i

  • Wasted

    Wasted

    I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

    –Richard II,
    Act V, Scene v

  • September 22

    Talk Less

    Where words are scarce,
    they are seldom spent in vain.

    ^Richard II,
    Act II, Scene i