Henry V Quotes

And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

– William Shakespeare

Every subject’s duty is the king’s; but every subject’s soul is his own.

– William Shakespeare

Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins lay on the king!

– William Shakespeare

Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

– William Shakespeare

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

– William Shakespeare

Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
And make a moral of the devil himself.

– William Shakespeare

A little touch of Harry in the night.

– William Shakespeare

‘Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,
The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
The farced title running ‘fore the king,
The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
That beats upon the high shore of this world,
No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,
Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
Who with a body filled and vacant mind
Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.

– William Shakespeare

O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts;
Possess them not with fear; take from them now
The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them.

– William Shakespeare

He which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

– William Shakespeare

All hell shall stir for this.

– William Shakespeare

Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say, ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day.

– William Shakespeare

If we are marked to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.

– William Shakespeare

Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.

– William Shakespeare

But now behold,
In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
How London doth pour out her citizens.

– William Shakespeare

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 to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England, now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

– William Shakespeare

By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear.

– William Shakespeare

For these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves into ladies’ favours, they do always reason themselves out again.

– William Shakespeare