Tag: Henry V

  • Looky Here

    I dare not fight; but I will wink and hold out mine iron:
    it is a simple one; but what though? It will toast cheese.

  • January 13

    Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

  • December 26

    You and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country’s fashion: we are the makers of manners.

  • November 11

    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother.

  • October 19

    Thus may we gather honey from the weed.

  • Bad as Them

    Bad as Them


    If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb,
    is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you,
    be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb?
    In your own conscience now?

    -Henry V, 
    Act IV, Scene i

  • September 29

    I think the King is but a man, as I am.
    The violet smells to him as it doth to me.