💬 Quotes

"Dissolve, my coin! With thy fuil kinds and all / The varied types of our society, / Let the world perish!"

"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have / Immortal longings in me."

"He is small, he is clever, he is happy—above all, he is my boy. He must go into a world where a great many people want things badly for themselves."

"To him all India was a vast painted screen, whereon were figures always moving."

"What is that? That is gun-gear. That is three-man-kill. That is stone-breaker. That is corruption."

"We are all bound on the Wheel—all no less than the mules: and he who knows this is a master of men."

"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?"

"First take an empty cup. That is to say, if the Great Game be played, it must be played with a clear head."

"The gifts of our race are what we are; the gifts of the Palefaces are what they have made."

"Ask your own heart, when did you ever find an Indian false to his compact?"

"A white man's gifts are acquired, and are to be jealously guarded, while an Indian knows his nature and acts up to it."

"The pale-faces are masters of the earth, and their ways are beyond the ken of an ignorant Indian."

"There are two things that every Indian knows: how to suffer without a murmur, and how to revenge an injury."

"No man can cry louder against injustice than he who practices it, when it suits his purpose."

"Shakespeare's tragedy of Richard II is deeply concerned with the sacred nature of kingship and the devastating consequences of its violation."

"The deposition of Richard is not merely a political maneuver; it represents a fundamental rupture in the Elizabethan worldview of order and divine right."

"In performance, Richard's theatricality becomes his armor, transforming his tragic fall into a masterclass of self-dramatization."

"Bolingbroke acts with calculated pragmatism, contrasting sharply with Richard's poetic yet disastrous detachment from the realities of governance."

"The garden scene serves as a brilliant microcosm of the entire realm, where horticultural neglect mirrors the political chaos of the state."

"Throughout its stage history, the play has been continually reinterpreted as a commentary on the legitimacy of power and the vulnerability of the sovereign."