Kingship and leadership

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“So shaken as we are, so wan with care”

King Henry

Act 1 Scene 1

“Frightened peace... the edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife”

King Henry

Act 1 Scene 1

“I’ll so offend to make offence a skill, / Redeeming time when men think least I will”

Hal

Act 1 Scene 2

“this unthankful king... this ingrate and cank’red Bolingbroke”

Hotspur

Act 1 Scene 3

Hotspur is a “wasp-stung and impatient fool”

Northumberland

Act 1 Scene 3

“I am not yet of Percy’s mind”

Hal

Act 2 Scene 4

“This chair shall me my state, this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown”

Falstaff

Act 2 Scene 4

“Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand for me, and I’ll play my father”

Hal

Act 2 Scene 4

“Depose me?”

Falstaff

Act 2 Scene 4

“Thy place in council thou has rudely lost”

King Henry

Act 3 Scene 2

“I stole all courtesy from heaven, / And dress’d myself in such humility / That I did pluck allegiance from men’s hearts”

King Henry

Act 3 Scene 2

“As thou art to this hour was Richard then... / And even as I was then is Percy now”

King Henry

Act 3 Scene 2

“But, like a comet, I was wond’red at”

King Henry

Act 3 Scene 2

“The King himself is to be feared as the lion”

Falstaff

Act 3 Scene 3

“This sickness doth infect / The very life-blood of our enterprise”

Hotspur

Act 4 Scene 1

“I