Richard III (1995)

Maggie Smith: Duchess of York

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Quotes 

• 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!

• Duchess of York : Are you my son?

  Richard : Yes. I thank God, my father, and yourself.

• Duchess of York : [to Richard III]  You came on earth to make the earth my hell.

• 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.

• 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?

• Duchess of York : Are you my son?

  Richard : Yes, I thank God, my father and yourself.

  Duchess of York : You toad! Where are the princes and your wife?

• 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!