Quotes from work

Henry V

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.”

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

“His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.”

“But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?"
Catherine: "I cannot tell."
Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.”

“He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.”

“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!”

“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!”

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall with our English dead.”

“We few. We happy few.
We band of brothers, for he today
That sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother.”

“God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.”

“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should
sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”

“I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”

“All things are ready, if our mind be so.”

“[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.”

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

“There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out.”