Quotes from Henry VI, Part 1
11 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1592
Let him that is a trueborn gentleman / And stands upon the honor of his birth, / If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, / From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; / She is a woman, therefore to be won.
Suffolk, Act V scene iii And here I prophesy: this brawl today, / Grown to this faction in the Temple garden, / Shall send, between the red rose and the white, / A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Warwick, Act II scene iv Glory is like a circle in the water, / Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself / Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.
Joan la Pucelle, Act I scene ii Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! / Comets, importing change of times and states, / Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky.
Bedford, opening lines, Act I scene i Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, / But dare maintain the party of the truth, / Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Somerset, Act II scene iv Delays have dangerous ends.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1 Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1 Faith, I have been a truant in the law / And never yet could frame my will to it, / And therefore frame the law unto my will.
Suffolk, Act II scene iv My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; / I know not where I am, nor what I do.
Talbot, Act I scene v To be a queen in bondage is more vile / Than is a slave in base servility, / For princes should be free.
Margaret, Act V scene iii