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King Henry IV, Part 1 QUOTES

King Henry IV, Part 1 QUOTES

1 " But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,
And Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

2 " [Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms! "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

3 " Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come, when you do call for them? "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

4 " To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

5 " What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

6 " If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

7 " O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil! "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

8 " I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

9 " Hark, how hard he fetches breath. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

10 " Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

11 " Eğer yılın her günü tatil olsaydı,
Eğlenmek çalışmak kadar sıkıcı olurdu;
Ama tatiller seyrek olduğunda, herkes onları özler;
Hiçbir şey insanları ender görülen şeyler kadar mutlu etmez. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

12 " Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

13 " How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee? "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

14 " O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two! "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

15 " Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of the day’s beauty. Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon, and let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

16 " I’ll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh,— "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

17 " the time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

18 " I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behaviour I throw off
And pay the debt I never promisèd,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I’ll so offend to make offence a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will. "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

19 " I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
To share with me in glory any more:
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere; "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1

20 " Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was to small a bound. But now two paces of the vilest earth are room enough "

― William Shakespeare , King Henry IV, Part 1