- Queen Elizabeth: I have no more sons of the royal blood for you to slaughter.
- Richard III: You have a daughter.
- Lady Anne: No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
- Richard III: But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
- Young Prince: I shall not sleep in quiet at the tower.
- Richard III: Why? What should you fear?
- Young Prince: My Uncle Clarence's angry ghost: My grandma told me he was murdered there.
- Prince Edward: I fear no Uncles dead.
- Richard III: Nor none who live, I hope.
- Duchess of York: [to Richard] Oh, hear me a little, for I shall never speak to you again! To war take with you my most grievous curse! My prayers shall on Richmond's party fight. Bloody you are, bloody will be your end! Shame serves your life and will your death attend!
- Queen Elizabeth: Shall I be tempted by the devil thus?
- Richard III: Yes, if the devil tempt you to do good.
- Lord Rivers: To whom in all this presence speaks your grace?
- Richard III: To you, who have neither honesty, nor Grace.
- Duke of Buckingham: [to Richard III] Know then, it is your fault that you refuse the supreme seat, the throne majestical. We heartily solicit you take on the kingly government of this your land. Not as Lord protector, but from blood to blood, your right of birth, your empery, your own.
- Richard: Since I cannot prove a lover, I am determined to prove a villain - and hate the idle pleasures of these days.
- Richard: I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, nor made to court an amorous looking-glass. I, that am rudely stamped, deformed, unfinished, sent before my time, into this breathing world scarce half made up. And that so lamely and unfashionable, that dogs bark at me as I halt by them. Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, have no delight to pass away the time, unless to spy my shadow in the sun and descant on mine own deformity.
- Richard III: Madam, mother, I do humbly crave your blessing.
- Duchess of York: God comfort you; and put meekness in your breast, love, charity, obedience and true duty!
- Richard III: Amen;
- [aside]
- Richard III: and make me die a good old man! That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing.
- 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.
- Duke of Buckingham: My Lord protector, what should we do if we perceive Hastings will not yield to our plans?
- Richard: Chop off his head.
- Richard III: [to the camera] Simple, plain Clarence! I do love you so, that I shall shortly send your soul to heaven. If heaven will take the present from my hands.
- Richard III: [to Lady Anne] Your beauty which did haunt me in my sleep could make me undertake the death of all the world.
- Lady Anne: When scarce the blood was well-washed from his hands which issued from my other, angel husband. Oh, when I say I looked on Richard's face, this was my wish. "Be you," I said, "accursed. And when you wed, let sorrow haunt your bed." Within so small a time, my woman's heart grossly grew captive to his honey words, and proved subject to my own soul's curse.
- Richard: Who is it that complains unto the King that I, in truth, am stern and love them not? Because I cannot flatter and look fair smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog, I must be held a rancorous enemy. Cannot a plain man live and think no harm?
- Richard: Let's leave this keen encounter of our wits. Your beauty, which did haunt me in my sleep, could make me undertake the death of all the world - so I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.
- Duke of Buckingham: We know each other's faces. For our hearts? He knows no more of mine than I of yours. Or, I of his, my lord, than you of mine.
- 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!
- Richard: We have many goodly days to see. The liquid drops of tears that you have shed, shall come again, transformed to orient pearl.
- James Tyrell, Richard's Chief Henchman: What, are you afraid?
- 2nd Murderer: Not to kill him, having a warrant for it; but,to be damned for killing him from which no warrant can defend me.
- [first lines]
- Prince Edward: Goodnight, your majesty.
- King Henry: Goodnight, son.
- Prince Edward: Father.
- 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.
- George, Duke of Clarence: I will send you to my brother Richard, who shall reward you better for my life than will the King for tidings of my death.
- James Tyrell, Richard's Chief Henchman: You are deceived. Your brother Richard hates you.
- George, Duke of Clarence: Oh, you are wrong. He loves me, and he holds me dear: Go you to him. Tell him that, he will weep.
- Lord William Hastings, Prime Minister: If she hath done this deed, my lord...
- Richard III: If! Thou protector of this damned strumpet, talk'st thou to me of if? Thou art a traitor! Off with his head. By St Paul I shall not dine until I see the same. Those who love me stand and follow me!
- James Tyrell, Richard's Chief Henchman: [to Hastings] His grace would have dinner.
- Queen Elizabeth: [to Richard III] You envy my advancement and my family: God grant we never may have need of you!