Shakespeare Richard Ii Quotes & Sayings

As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such. — Chevy Stevens

I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival. — Ian McKellen

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II? — Edward Abbey

The only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you. — David Foster Wallace

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up. — Marlena De Blasi

You have but mistook me all the while ... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king? — William Shakespeare

Lex lets you off the hook way too easily, you know that?" "Of course I do." No laughter now. Dallas's expression was deadly serious. "Why do you think being a better man matters so damn much? The sex, that's good, but it's not the prize. Trust is the prize, and the fight's not about winning it or keeping it. It's about deserving it, and that's a fight a man's got to have with himself. Every fucking day. — Kit Rocha

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives. — Emily Watson

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other. — Ann Voskamp

All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me — Eugene Ionesco

No, let me explain the one thing that makes me different to you. I have no conscience. — Lime Craven

...he lifted the fat and frightened hawk onto his fist reciting it passages from Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard II, Othello-- 'but tragedy had to be kept out of the voice'-- and all the sonnets he could remember, whistling hymns to it, playing it Gilbert and Sullivan and Italian opera, and deciding, on reflection, that hawks liked Shakespeare best. — Helen Macdonald

We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now. — Bruce Coslet