"An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England!"

King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.

"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things."

King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.

"By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear."

King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.

"All hell shall stir for this."

King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.

"If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows."

King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 2.

"Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!"

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

"Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,-- I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw."

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

"Delays have dangerous ends."

King Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won."

King Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Sc. 3.

"Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face."

King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."

King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."

King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"He dies, and makes no sign."

King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation."

King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea."

King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer."

King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.

"Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?"

King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.

"Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it."

King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.

"Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill."

King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 7.

"How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy!"

King Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Sc. 2.

"And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak."

King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on."

King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?"

King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings!"

King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench."

King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. Sc. 8.

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer."

King Henry VI. Part III. Act v. Sc. 6.

"To leave this keen encounter of our wits."

King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?"

King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Framed in the prodigality of nature."

King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2.

"The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch."

King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.

"And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil."

King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.

"O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days."

King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.

"Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems."

King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.

"A parlous boy."

King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4.

"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."

King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Off with his head!"

King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down."

King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Even in the afternoon of her best days."

King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7.

"Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein."

King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 2.

"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk."

King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom."

King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women Rail on the Lord's anointed."

King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.

"Tetchy and wayward."

King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.

"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told."

King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.

"Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment."

King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."

King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.

"The king's name is a tower of strength."

King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

"Give me another horse: bind up my wounds."

King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

"O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!"

King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain."

King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.