Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors:
Shakespeare - Henry V Quotes, Famous Henry V Quotes Quotations
O
England! model to thy inward greatness,
Like little body with a mighty heart,
What might'st thou do, that honour would thee do,
Were all thy children kind and natural!
But see thy fault! Henry V, 2. Prologue
Base
is the slave that pays. Henry V, 2. 1
Would
I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in
hell. Henry V, 2. 3
He's
in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. Henry V, 2. 3
His
nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields.
Henry V, 2. 3
As cold as any stone. Henry V, 2. 3
Self-love,
my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting. Henry V, 2. 4
Once
more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
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-favoured rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect. Henry V, 3. 1
And
sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Henry
V, 3. 1
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!' Henry
V, 3. 1