Henry IV Part 2 Quotes

We ready are to try our fortunes
To the last man.

– William Shakespeare

There is a history in all men’s lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
The which observed, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

– William Shakespeare

O sleep! O gentle sleep!
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lulled with sound of sweetest melody?

– William Shakespeare

O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level, and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea!

– William Shakespeare

We have heard the chimes at midnight.

– William Shakespeare

Talks as familiarly of John a Gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him.

– William Shakespeare

Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring.

– William Shakespeare

O polished perturbation! golden care!
That keep’st the ports of slumber open wide
To many a watchful night! Sleep with it now!
Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet
As he whose brow with homely biggin bound
Snores out the watch of night.

– William Shakespeare

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorced
So many English kings.

– William Shakespeare

A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kick-shaws, tell William cook.

– William Shakespeare

A man cannot make him laugh; but that’s no marvel; he drinks no wine.

– William Shakespeare

His cares are now all ended.

– William Shakespeare

Sorrow so royally in you appears,
That I will deeply put the fashion on.

– William Shakespeare

‘Tis merry in hall when beards wag all.

– William Shakespeare

My father is gone wild into his grave.

– William Shakespeare

FALSTAFF: What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
PISTOL: Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.

– William Shakespeare

I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dreamed of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane.

– William Shakespeare

Commit
The oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

– William Shakespeare

If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.

– William Shakespeare

Against ill chances men are ever merry,
But heaviness foreruns the good event.

– William Shakespeare

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gourmandising; know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men.

– William Shakespeare

A foutre for the world, and worldlings base!
I speak of Africa and golden joys.

– William Shakespeare

That I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, ‘I came, saw, and overcame.’

– William Shakespeare

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

– William Shakespeare

This is the English, not the Turkish court;
Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,
But Harry, Harry.

– William Shakespeare

Skill in the weapon is nothing without sack, for that sets it a-work; and learning, a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil till sack commences it and sets it in act and use.

– William Shakespeare

It hath been prophesied to me many years
I should not die but in Jerusalem,
Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land.
But bear me to that chamber; there I’ll lie:
In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.

– William Shakespeare