FALSTAFF: And is not my hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench? PRINCE: As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
There’s neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 3.
O! the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 3.
‘Tis my vocation, Hal; ’tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. [Referring to stealing] – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
Shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king, and resolution thus fobbed as it is with the rusby curb of old father antick, the law. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
Why, what a candy deal of courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me! – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 3.
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 3.
In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 1.
And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2.
I am bewitched with the rogue’s company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I ‘ll be hanged. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 2.
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 3.
Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 3.
I am not yet of Percy’s mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, ‘Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.’. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4.
There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4.
Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! give me them that will face me. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4.
Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4.
On monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4.
Instinct is a great matter, I was now a coward on instinct. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4.