Richard III (1955)
Laurence Olivier: Richard III
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Quotes
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Richard III : I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall,/ I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,/ Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could,/ And, like a Sinon, take another Troy./ I can add colours to the chameleon, /Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, /And set the murderous Machiavel to school./ Can I do this,and cannot get a crown?/Tut, were it farther off,/ I'll pluck it down.
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Richard III : A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
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Richard III : Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass; that I may see my shadow as I pass.
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Richard III : Conscience is a word that cowards use.
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Richard III : Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls for conscience is a word that cowards use devised at first to keep the strong in awe.Conscience avaunt!
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Richard III : But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks nor made to court an amorous looking-glass - I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty to strut before a wanton ambling nymph - I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion cheated of feature by dissembling nature deformed, unfinished sent before my time into this breathing worid scarce half made up and that so lamely and unfashionable that dogs bark at me as I halt by them. Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb.
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Richard III : Murder her brothers, and then marry her. Familiar way of gain. But I am in so far in blood that sin will pluck on sin. Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
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Richard III : Look how my ring encompasseth thy finger. Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart. Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
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Richard III : Darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?
Tyrell : Please you, but I'd rather kill two enemies.
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Richard III : He cannot live... I hope and must not die till George be packed with post-horse up to heaven. Dive, thoughts, down to my soul - George Clarence comes.
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Richard III : Short summers lightly have a forward spring.
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Richard III : So wise so young, they say, do ne'er live long.
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Richard III : Why, thus it is when men are ruled by women.
