Famous Quotations from Henry IV （Part One）

Famous Quotations from Henry IV （Part One）

So shaken as we are, so wan with care. (1.1)

In those holy fields

Over whose acres walked those blessed feet

Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail’d

For our advantage on the bitter cross. (1.1)

Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. (1.2)

What, in thy quips and thy quiddities? (1.2)

Shall there be gallows standing in England

when thou art king, and resolution thus

fobbed as it is with the rusty curb of old

father antick, the law? (1.2)

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes. (1.2)

I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. (1.2)

O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. (1.2)

Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal;

'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. (1.2)

If he fight longer than he sees reason,

I'll forswear arms. (1.2)

He will give the devil his due. (1.2)

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. (1.2)

Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap’d

Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home;

He was perfumed like a milliner,

And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held

A pouncet-box, which ever and anon

He gave his nose and took’t away again. (1.3)