Top 59 Quotes About Richard Iii

#1. But what [Gansey] said was, "I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just for Blue, either. All of us."
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied, "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told."
Blue said, "Okay.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#2. My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

Denzel Washington

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#3. When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.

Marilynne Robinson

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#4. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

Varlam Shalamov

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#5. You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.

Ving Rhames

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#6. At this, Gansey rolled over onto his back and folded his hands on his chest. He wore a salmon polo shirt, which, in Blue's opinion, was far more hellish than anything they'd discussed to this point.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#7. Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.

Beau Willimon

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#8. ... only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

Alison Weir

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#9. The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

Peter Ackroyd

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#10. KING RICHARD III:
I am in
So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin.

William Shakespeare

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#11. The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

Kurt Sutter

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#12. Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For
him, oblivion is when something goes into nothing and nowhere is the place where
something can come out of nothing.

Carlton Mellick III

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#13. It had been a long time ago, but also, it was no time at all.
Sometimes, Gansey felt like his life was made up of a dozen hours that he could never forget.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#14. Discharge my followers; let them hence away,
From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.

William Shakespeare

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#15. He was just alive," [Gansey] said helplessly. "He just taught us four irregular verbs last week. And you killed him.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#16. The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

Ben Kingsley

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#17. A woman is hard to mistake for anything else." ~Richard Gansey III

Maggie Stiefvater

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#18. Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

Jerome Charyn

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#19. It was a powerful thing, that laugh. He only did it once, but his eyes remained shaped like it. Something inside her did a complicated tug. Oh no! she thought. But then she calmed herself. Richard C. Gansey III has a nice mouth. Now I know he has nice eyes when he

Maggie Stiefvater

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#20. I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years ... Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!

Sharon Kay Penman

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#21. Noah crouched over Gansey's body. He said, for the last time, 'You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.'
Gansey died.
'Goodbye,' Noah said. 'Don't throw it away.'
He quietly slid from time.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#22. I'll join with black despair against my soul, and to myself become an enemy.

Richard III

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#23. It neither is reason nor in any wise to be suffered that the young king, our master and kinsman, should be in the hands of custody of his mother's kindred, sequestered in great measure from our company and attendance, the which is neither honorable to his majesty nor unto us.

Richard III Of England

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#24. Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God's grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.

Richard III Of England

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#25. Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. That was to be Gansey's greatness.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#26. Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Ralph Nader

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#27. Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on.

Kevin Spacey

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#28. It'll be OK. I'm ready. Blue, kiss me.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#29. I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

Brendan Coyle

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#30. I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Ving Rhames

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#31. But at the heart of character is the ability to restrain our desires. As a man grows in character, he builds the muscles of self-restraint.

Richard E. Simmons III

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#32. No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

William Shakespeare

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#33. Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.

William Shakespeare

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#34. Ronan replied, 'I'm waiting for you to tell me what to do, Gansey. Tell me where to go.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#35. Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.

Richard Killeen

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#36.
Why I, in this weak piping time of piece,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun
And descant on my own deformity :
...

William Shakespeare

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#37. With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.

Richard III Of England

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#38. There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

Helen Mirren

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#39. If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing.

J. Richard Gott III

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#40. I love 'Richard III,' but in terms of a general play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has always been a big one for me. It's just so sexy.

Sean Maher

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#41. Sapphires for my bride-to-be and a severed head for the king my brother," said Duke Richard cheerfully. "As St Paul pointed out, gifts may vary but the spirit is the same. In the present instance, a spirit of goodwill.

Reay Tannahill

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#42. Time tugged at his soul.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#43. Somewhere along the way, during this hunt for Glendower, he'd forgotten to notice how much magic there was in the world. How much magic that wasn't just buried in a tomb. He was feeling it now.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#44. Richard III is not a monster. He is the natural outgrowth of monstrous and horrible times. He is the fitting termination of the rule of the House of York the exemplification of an old, divinely attested saying that they who take the sword shall perish by it.

James Gairdner

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#45. What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history.
(In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')

Paul Murray Kendall

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#46. He had had his own feelings hurt over and over by Adam, even when Adam had meant no harm. Some of the worst fractures had appeared because Adam hadn't realized the he was causing them.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#47. Richard Gansey III had forgotten how many times he had been told he was destined for greatness.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#48. If anything keep thy soul out of heaven, which God forbid, there is nothing in the world liker to do it, than thy false hopes of being saved, while thou art yet out of the way to salvation(234). (III.III)

Richard Baxter

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#49. I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

Ted Lange

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#50. And therefore, - since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

William Shakespeare

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#51. At the sight of Gansey's Aglionby sweater, Adam's father had charged out, firing on all cylinders. For weeks after that, Ronan had called Gansey "the S.R.F.," where the S stood for Soft, the R stood for Rich, and the F for something else.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#52. If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.

Mark Strong

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#53. But shall we wear these glories for a day?
Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

William Shakespeare

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#54. Are you coming to me for wisdom?
Gansey shook his head head. 'Courage.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#55. As Richard mounted his horse to follow, some of his Household protested that he must not wear into battle the helmet with the golden crown, for it would mark him as the prime target for the enemy. Quietly Richard replied that he would live, and die, King of England.

Paul Murray Kendall

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#56. Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met violent ends.

Sharon Kay Penman

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#57. If Glendower had not saved Gansey's life, he did not know who to thank, or who to be, or how to live.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#58. I would love to play Richard III.

Peter Dinklage

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#59. Not one foot will I fly, so long as breath bides within my breast; for, by Him that shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my battles or my life. I will die King of England.

Richard III Of England

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