Henry VI Part 3 Quotes

I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;
I’ll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
I’ll play the orator as well as Nestor,
Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it farther off, I’ll pluck it down.

– William Shakespeare

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroidered canopy
To kings that fear their subjects’ treachery?

– William Shakespeare

This battle fares like to the morning’s war,
When dying clouds contend with growing light,
What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,
Can neither call it perfect day nor night.

– William Shakespeare

Peace! impudent and shameless Warwick, peace;
Proud setter up and puller down of kings!

– William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

– William Shakespeare

Lo, now my glory smeared in dust and blood!
My parks, my walks, my manors that I had,
Even now forsake me; and of all my lands
Is nothing left me but my body’s length!
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

– William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.

– William Shakespeare