Richard the third quote

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front,
. . .
He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
. . .
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.
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
(I.i.1–40)

This passage is truly genius, I smiled reading it. You can picture Richard looking out of a window in the castle seeing lovers and children all happy with life. There is no war, no famine, everything is fine. Except for Richard, he is deformed and loathes to see these peoples happy faces. So he takes it upon himself since he is not meant for sports or the looking-glass to ruin everyone else's lives. For what reason? None other than his own pleasure. Essentially that is what these three stanzas mean and they, even so early in the play, show us what kind of a character Richard is going to be.