Lies and manipulation

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“I will from henceforth rather be myself”

King Henry

Act 1 Scene 3

“Before the game is afoot thou still let’st slip”

Northumberland

Act 1 Scene 3

“I am a rogue if I were not at halfsword with a dozen of them two hours together”

Falstaff

Act 2 Scene 4

“If I fought not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish... if I tell a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.”

Falstaff

Act 2 Scene 4

“Eleven buckram men grown out of two!”

Hal

Act 2 Scene 4

“These lies are like their father that begets them – gross as a mountain, open, palpable.

Hal

Act 2 Scene 4

“What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?”

Hal

Act 2 Scene 4

“By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made he”

Falstaff

Act 2 Scene 4

“I blush’d to hear his monstrous devices”

Bardolph

Act 2 Scene 4

“You are too wilfulblame.../ You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault.../ oftentimes it doth present harsh rage, / Defect of manners, want of government, / Pride, haughtiness, opinion and disdain; / The least of which, haunting a noblemen, / Loseth men’s hearts”

Worcester

Act 3 Scene 1

“You do not counsel well; / You speak it out if fear and a cold heart”

Douglas

Act 4 Scene 3

“My nephew must not know... / The liberal and kind offer of the King”

Worcester

Act 5 Scene 2

“All of [Hotspur’s] offences live upon my head / And on his father’s: we did train him on”

Worcester

Act 5 Scene 2

“The better part of valour is discretion”

Falstaff

Act 5 Scene 4

“I am not a double man”

Falstaff