Richard Quotes

“You hardly know me, Johnny, so I beg you to believe my reputation: I’m a constant soldier and a sometime poet and I will be King.”

“You get Alais and you get the kingdom but I get the one thing I want most. If you’re king, England stays intact. I get that. It’s all yours now-the girl, the crown, the whole black bloody business. Isn’t that enough?”

“Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool-as if the way one fell down mattered. Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.”

“You know what I am? I’m the family nothing. Geoffrey’s smart and Richard’s brave and I’m not anything.”

“It’s a heavy thing, your nothing. When I write or send for you or speak or reach, your nothings come. Like stones.”