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“Before, I loved thee as a brother, John,
William Shakespeare
But now, I do respect thee as my soul.” (King Henry IV, Part 1 Quotes)
King Henry IV, Part 1
“I am not yet of Percy’s mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, ‘Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.”
William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1
“I know you all, and will awhile uphold
William Shakespeare
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behaviour I throw off
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I’ll so offend to make offence a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.”
King Henry IV, Part 1
“If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.”
William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1
“I’ll so offend, to make offence a skill,
William Shakespeare
Redeeming time when men think least I will.”
King Henry IV, Part 1
“Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was too small a bound. But now two paces of the vilest earth are room enough”
William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1
“Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever.”
William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1
“O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!”
William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1
“Tell me, sweet lord, what is ’t that takes from thee
William Shakespeare
Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?
Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth
And start so often when thou sit’st alone?
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks
And given my treasures and my rights of thee
To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy?” (King Henry IV, Part 1 Quotes)
King Henry IV, Part 1
“These signs have marked me extraordinary;
William Shakespeare
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.”
King Henry IV, Part 1
“They surfeited with honey and began
William Shakespeare
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much.”
King Henry IV, Part 1
“To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.”
William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1
“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No.”
William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1
“Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.”
William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1
“You tread upon my patience: but be sure I will from henceforth rather be myself, Mighty and to be feared, than my condition, Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down, And therefore lost that title of respect Which the proud soul ne’er pays but to the proud.”
William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1
