Religion and morality

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“It seems then that the tidings of this broil / Brake off our business for the Holy Land”

King Henry

Act 1 Scene 1

“And for this cause awhile we must neglect / Our holy purpose to Jerusalem”

King Henry

Act 1 Scene 1

“What a devil hast thou to do with the time of day?”

Hal

Act 1 Scene 2

“Call be a villain and baffle me”

Falstaff

Act 1 Scene 2

“Tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation”

Falstaff

Act 1 Scene 2

“Youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears”

Falstaff

Act 2 Scene 4

“Tell the truth and shame the devil”

Hotspur

Act 3 Scene 1

“I know not whether God will have it so, / For some displeasing service I have done... out of my blood / He’ll breed revengement and a scourge for me”

King Henry

Act 3 Scene 2

“Not an eye / But is aweary of the common sight, / Save mine, which hath desir’d to see thee more; / Which now doth that I would not have it do – / Make blind itself with foolish tenderness”

King Henry

Act 3 Scene 2

“I have misused the King’s press damnably. I have got, in exchange for a hundred and fifty soldiers, three hundred and off pounds... There’s not a shirt and a half in all my company”

Falstaff

Act 4 Scene 2

“Good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they’ll fill a pit as well as better... mortal men, mortal men”

Falstaff

Act 4 Scene 2

“For nothing can seem foul to those who win”

King Henry

Act 5 Scene 1

“God befriend us, as our cause is just!”

King Henry

Act 5 Scene 1

“The time of life is short... / And if we live, we live to tread on kings; / If die, brave death, when princes die with us!”

Hotspur

Act 5 Scene 2