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| King Henry V Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is in the very May-morn of his youth, Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. | Youth | King Henry V |
| 2 | From the tents, The armorers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. | War | King Henry V |
| 3 | I and my bosom must debate awhile, And then I would no other company. | Thought | King Henry V |
| 4 | All is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes. | Shame | King Henry V |
| 5 | Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrowed sea, Breasting the lofty surge. | Ship | King Henry V |
| 6 | As rich.... As is the ooze and bottom of the sea With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. | Ship | King Henry V |
| 7 | Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. | Speech | King Henry V |
| 8 | What infinite heart's ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy? And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony? | Royalty | King Henry V |
| 9 | Like a lackey, from the rise to set, Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse, And follows so the ever-running year With profitable labor to his grave. And, but for ceremony, such a wretch, Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep, Hath the forehand and vantage of a king. | Labor | King Henry V |
| 10 | O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! | Illness | King Henry V |
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