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- Narrator: King Edward was sick, and so was his kingdom. Family hated family, brother hated brother. And none hated more venomously than Richard, Duke of Gloucester - the world and his brother, the King.
- Richard: Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York. But I that am deform'd, unfinish'd, have no delight to pass away the time, and therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, am determined to prove a villain...
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- Richmond: England hath long been mad and scarr'd herself: the brother blindly shed the brother's blood; the father rashly slaughter'd his own son; the son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire. All this divided York and Lancaster - O now let Richmond and Elizabeth, the true succeeders of each royal house, by God's fair ordinance conjoin together! Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again. That she may long live here, God say amen!
- Richard III: Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this son of York. But I that am deformed have no delight to pass away the time. And therefore since I cannot prove a lover, I am determined to prove a villain.
- Richard III: Would'st thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?
- Sir James Tyrell: So please you, sir, but I'd rather kill two enemies.
- Richard III: Then you have two deep enemies. Tyrell, I mean those bastards in the tower.
- Buckingham: My lord, what should we do if we perceive Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?
- Richard: Chop off his head man!