Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Henry V.
Power Quotes
BISHOP OF CANTERBURY The king is full of grace and fair regard.BISHOP OF ELY And a true lover of the holy Church.BISHOP OF CANTERBURY The courses of his youth promised it not.The breath no sooner l...
Warfare Quotes
KING HENRYYea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.And tell the pleasant prince this mock of hisHath turned his balls to gun-stones, [...]Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,To venge me as I may...
Patriotism Quotes
BISHOP OF CANTEBURYLook back into your mighty ancestors.Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spiritAnd your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prin...
Family Quotes
BISHOP OF CANTERBURYThe breath no sooner left his father’s body
But that his wildness, mortified in him,
Seemed to die too. Yea, at that very moment
Consideration like an angel came
And whipped t...
Gender Quotes
BISHOP OF CANTERBURY'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant'(No woman shall succeed in Salic land),Which Salic land the French unjustly glozeTo be the realm of France, and PharamondThe founder of...
Art and Culture Quotes
CHORUS O, for a Muse of fire that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! (Prologue.1-4)
Society and Class Quotes
HOSTESSBy my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of these days. The King has killed his heart. Good husband, come home presently. (2.1.85-87)
Memory and the Past Quotes
BISHOP OF CANTERBURY The King is full of grace and fair regard.
BISHOP OF ELY
And a true lover of the holy Church.
BISHOP OF CANTERBURY
The courses of his youth promised it not.
The breath no soo...