Richard III (1995)

Annette Bening: Queen Elizabeth

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Quotes 

• Queen Elizabeth : I have no more sons of the royal blood for you to slaughter.

  Richard III : You have a daughter.

• Queen Elizabeth : Shall I be tempted by the devil thus?

  Richard III : Yes, if the devil tempt you to do good.

• Queen Elizabeth : But you did kill my children.

  Richard III : But in your daughter's womb, I bury them: Where, in that nest of spicery, they will breed.

• Duchess of York : What means this scene of rude impatience?

  Queen Elizabeth : Edward, my lord, your son, our King, is dead! Why grow the branches now the root is withered? Why wither not the leaves, the sap being gone?

• Richard : Say that I did all this for love of her.

  Queen Elizabeth : Well, then, she cannot choose but hate you.

• Richard : Harp not on that string, madam, that is past!

  Queen Elizabeth : Harp on it still shall I till heartstrings break!

• Queen Elizabeth : [to Richard III]  Tell me, thou villain slave!

  [screams] 

  Queen Elizabeth : Where are my children?

• Queen Elizabeth : No doubt the murderous knife was dull before it was whetted on your stone-hard heart.

• Queen Elizabeth : [to Richard III]  You envy my advancement and my family: God grant we never may have need of you!

• Queen Elizabeth : The King is sickly, weak and melancholy.

  Lord Rivers : Have patience, sister: There's no doubt his Majesty will soon recover his accustom'd health.

  Queen Elizabeth : But his physicians fear for him mightily. If he were dead, what would become of me?

• Queen Elizabeth : Edward, my Lord, your son, our King, is dead.

• Queen Elizabeth : I see the ruin of my family.

• Queen Elizabeth : You poisonous, bunch-backed toad!

• Queen Elizabeth : My dear brother-in-law, in those busy days, when now you try to prove us enemies, we followed then Edward, our lawful king.

  Lord Rivers : So should she you, if you should be her king.

  Richard III : If I should be? I'd rather be a pedlar!

• Richard : Let me put in your mind, if you forget what you have been before and what you are; indeed what I have been and what I am.

  Queen Elizabeth : A bottled spider!

• Queen Elizabeth : How can you woo her?

• Duchess of York : I leave for France. Be not tongue-tied. You're a dream of what you were. A breath, a Queen in jest! Where is your husband now? Where is your brother? Where are your two sons? Wherein, joy? Who sues and kneels and says, "God save the Queen"? Where are the bended peers that flattered you? Where be the thronging troops that followed you?

  Queen Elizabeth : Teach me how to curse my enemy!

  Duchess of York : Forbear to sleep the nights and fast the days. Think that your babes were sweeter than they were and he that slew them fouler than he is!