Henry V Quotes

Act 1

When we have matched our rackets to these balls,
We will in France, by God's grace, play a set
Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
-Henry

This was a merry message.
We hope to make the sender blush at it.
-Exeter/Henry

Act 2

Now all the youth of England are on fire.
-Chorus

Pish for thee, Iceland dog!
-Pistol

Why how now, gentlemen? 
What see you in those papers, that you lose so much complexion?
-Henry

The mercy that was quick in us but late
By your own counsel is supressed and killed.
-Henry

I will weep for thee, for this revolt of thine methinks is like another fall of man.
-Henry

The signs of war advance.  No king of England if not of France.
-Henry

Stop pursuit, for coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.
-the Dauphin

Act 3

Yet forgive me, God, that I do brag thus.  This your air of France
Hath blown that vice in me.
-Henry

If the English had any apprehension they would run away.
-a French constable

If their heads had any intellectual armor, they could never wear such heavy headpieces.
-Orleans

Act 4

Now entertain conjecture of a time when creeping murmur and the poring dark fills the wide vessel of the universe.
-Chorus

Why, the enemy is loud.  You hear him all night.
If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, in your own conscience now?
-Gower/Fluellen

For, though I speak it to you, I think the king is but a man as I am.
-Henry (in disguise)

But if the cause be not good, then the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those arms and legs and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day, and cry all, "We died at such a place."
-Williams

Every subject's duty is to the king, but every subject's soul is his own.
-Henry (still in disguise)

The day, my friends, and all things stay for me.
-Henry

My horse, varlet!  Lackey!  Ha!
-the Dauphin

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered-we few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
-Henry

All things are ready if our minds be so.
-Henry

Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.
-Henry

Be these the wretches that we played at dice for?
-the Dauphin

I was not angry since I came to France until this instant.
-Henry

Then to Calais, and England then,
where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.
-Henry

Act 5

But, in loving me, you should love the friend of France, for I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it.
-Henry

Come, your answer in broken music, for thy voice is music, and thy English broken.
-Henry

We are the makers of manners, Kate.
-Henry

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