Shakespeare Quotations

Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
    King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Scene 1.

Halcyon days.
    King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Scene 2.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;
Between two blades, which bears the better temper;
Between two horses, which doth bear him best;
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,—
I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment;
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
    King Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Scene 4.

Delays have dangerous ends.
    King Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Scene 2.

She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.
    King Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Scene 3.

Main chance.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 1.

Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I 'd set my ten commandments in your face.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Scene 3.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Scene 1.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Scene 2.

He dies, and makes no sign.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Scene 3.

Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;
And let us all to meditation.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Scene 3.

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Scene 1.

There shall be in England seven halfpenny
loaves sold for a penny; the
three-hooped pot shall have ten
hoops; and I will make it felony
to drink small beer.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Scene 2.

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of
the skin of an innocent lamb should
be made parchment? that parchment,
being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Scene 2.

Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house,
and the bricks are alive at
this day to testify it.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Scene 2.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
    King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Scene 7.

How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown,
Within whose circuit is Elysium
And all that poets feign of bliss and joy!
    King Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Scene 2.

And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
    King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 1.

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
    King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 2.

Didst thou never hear
That things ill got had ever bad success?
And happy always was it for that son
Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?
    King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Scene 2.

Warwick, peace,
Proud setter up and puller down of kings!
    King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Scene 3.

A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.
    King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. Scene 8.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
    King Henry VI. Part III. Act v. Scene 6.

Henry VI Parts 1,2,3