The power of language

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Mortal poison for thy sake”

Anne

Act 1 Scene 1

“Never came poison from so sweet a place”

Richard III

Act 1 Scene 1

“Thus, like the formal Vice, Iniquity, / I moralise two meanings in one word.”

Richard III

Act 3 Scene 1

“Grossly grew captive to his honey words”

Anne (about Richard III)

Act 4 Scene 1

“[Words] help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart”

Elizabeth

Act 4 Scene 4