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Henry V

Henry V

William Shakespeare

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was titled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, which became The Life of Henry the Fifth in the First Folio text.

“Men of few words are the best men."

(3.2.41)”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: 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.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“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.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“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!”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“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.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“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?”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: King Henry V

“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.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V, No Fear, Act 4 Scene 4

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

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

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