Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: Richard III

  • Goodnight

    Goodnight

    No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
    Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream
    Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!
    Thou elvish-mark’d, abortive, rooting hog!

    –Richard III,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • February 22

    Rise Skyward

    True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings; 
    Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

    –Richard III,
    Act V, Scene ii

  • Self-Destructive Fool

    Self-Destructive Fool

    Why strew’st thou sugar on that bottled spider,
    Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?
    Fool, fool! Thou whet’st a knife to kill thyself.

    -Richard III,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • Not in the Spirit

    Not in the Spirit

    I am not in the giving vein to-day. 

    -Richard III,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • December 13

    Ride It Out

    I have set my life upon a cast,
    And I will stand the hazard of the die:
    A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse!

    –Richard III,
    Act V, Scene iv

  • Get Out, Toad

    Get Out, Toad

    Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
    Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes.

    –Richard III,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • November 23

    Learn to Love

    O, learn to love; the lesson is but plain,
    And once made perfect, never lost again.

    –Venus and Adonis