Richard ii Quotes

“Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.”

“Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done.”

“Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.”

“For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.”

“I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!”

“The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are mere shadows to the unseen grief which swells with silence in the tortured soul.There lies the substance.”

“If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;”

“Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so; or sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides one thing entire to many objects: like perspectives which, rightly gaz'd upon, show nothing but confusion:”

“My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.”