Think you can distinguish between the poetic laments of a fallen king and the cold pragmatism of a usurper? How well do you really know the play’s most famous lines? This Richard II quotes quiz will test your knowledge. Don’t be fooled by the flowery words of the fallen king.
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Richard II Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings.”
- “This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty.”
- “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”
- “This England never did, nor never shall, lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.”
- “Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.”
- “Throw away respect, tradition, form, and ceremonious duty.”
- “I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads.”
- “Not all the water in the rough rude sea can wash the balm from an anointed king.”
- “God’s is the quarrel; for God’s substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight.”
- “O, call back yesterday, bid time return.”
- “The king shall have his own again.”
- “Down, down I come, like glistering Phaethon.”
- “Conveyers are you all, that rise thus nimbly by a true king’s fall.”
- “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”
- “Let heaven revenge, for I may never lift an angry arm against His minister.”
- “Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see.”
- “I am Richard II, know ye not that?”
- “O, that I were a mockery king of snow.”
- “My grief lies all within, and these external manners of lament are merely shadows.”
- “The love of wicked men converts to fear; that fear to hate, and hate turns one or both to worthy danger.”
- “He is come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.”
- “O villain, villain!”
- “I do remain as neuter.”
- “The blood of English shall manure the ground.”
- “Yet looks he like a king.”
- “We’ll make foul weather with despised tears.”
- “You may my glories and my state depose, but not my griefs.”
- “I live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief, need friends.”
- “Rude misgoverned hands from windows’ tops threw dust and rubbish on King Richard’s head.”
- “I will undo myself.”