Shakespeare Quotes About Kingship

    15 quotes across 4 plays.

    The skipping king, he ambled up and down With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,

    King Henry IV·Henry IV, Part 1·Act 3, Scene 2

    This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise;

    Hotspur·Henry IV, Part 1·Act 4, Scene 1

    Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on?

    Falstaff·Henry IV, Part 1·Act 5, Scene 1

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

    Prince Hal·Henry IV, Part 1·Act 1, Scene 2

    Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

    Falstaff·Henry IV, Part 1·Act 2, Scene 4

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

    Prince Hal·Henry IV, Part 1·Act 2, Scene 2

    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.

    King Henry V·Henry V·Act 3, Scene 1

    What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!

    King Henry V·Henry V·Act 4, Scene 1

    All things are ready, if our minds be so.

    King Henry V·Henry V·Act 4, Scene 3

    My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: my crown is called content: A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

    King Henry VI·Henry VI, Part 3·Act 3, Scene 1

    My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

    King Henry VI·Henry VI, Part 3·Act 4, Scene 6

    For how can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

    Queen Margaret·Henry VI, Part 3·Act 3, Scene 3

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

    King Richard II·Richard II·Act 3, Scene 2

    For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,

    King Richard II·Richard II·Act 3, Scene 2

    For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

    King Richard II·Richard II·Act 3, Scene 2
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