Quotes from King Henry IV, Part 1
24 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1596
The better part of valour is discretion.
The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
Falstaff, Act V scene iv What is honour? A word. What is that word honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died a Wednesday.
Falstaff's honour catechism, Act V scene i I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness.
Prince Hal, Act I scene ii I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Glendower, Act III scene i Why, so can I, or so can any man; but will they come when you do call for them?
Hotspur, Act III scene i Tell truth and shame the devil.
Hotspur, Act III scene i Honour is a mere scutcheon — and so ends my catechism.
Falstaff, Act V scene i Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Falstaff, Henry IV, Part 1 Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world!
Falstaff, playing the Prince, Act II scene iv He will give the devil his due.
Prince Hal, Act I scene ii By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, to pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon.
Hotspur, Henry IV, Part 1 By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon.
Hotspur, Act I scene iii Give me life; which if I can save, so; if not, honour comes unlooked for, and there's an end.
Falstaff, Act V scene iii Two paces of the vilest earth is room enough.
Prince Hal over Hotspur's body, Act V scene iv Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, a kingdom for it was too small a bound.
Prince Hal over Hotspur's body, Act V scene iv I'll so offend, to make offence a skill, redeeming time when men think least I will.
Prince Hal, Act I scene ii A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too!
Falstaff, Act II scene iv O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth!
Hotspur to Prince Hal, Act V scene iv But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool, and time, that takes survey of all the world, must have a stop.
Hotspur, dying, Act V scene iv Food for powder, food for powder. They'll fill a pit as well as better.
Falstaff, Act IV scene ii If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.
Falstaff, Act II scene iv Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack.
Prince Hal to Falstaff, Act I scene ii Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth in strange eruptions.
Hotspur, Act III scene i