"Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king."

King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"O, call back yesterday, bid time return!"

King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs."

King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings."

King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall--and farewell king!"

King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"He is come to open The purple testament of bleeding war."

King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave."

King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long."

King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"A mockery king of snow."

King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious."

King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2.

"As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye."

King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5.

"So shaken as we are, so wan with care."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 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."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Old father antic the law."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

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

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

"And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

"'T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

"He will give the devil his due."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

"There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

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

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 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."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.

"And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called the untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.

"God save the mark."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.

"And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.

"The blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!"

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.

"By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.

"I know a trick worth two of that."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I 'll be hanged."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.

"Brain him with his lady's fan."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.

"A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"A plague of all cowards, I say."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing!"

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward: here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me--"

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"I was now a coward on instinct."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!"

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?"

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"In King Cambyses' vein."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world."

King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.