Quotes from King Henry VI, Part 2

14 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1591

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Dick the Butcher, Henry VI, Part 2

  1. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

    William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2

  2. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.

    Suffolk, Act III, Scene 1

  3. Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.

    Queen Margaret, Henry VI, Part 2

  4. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.

    King Henry, Act III, Scene 2

  5. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?

    Jack Cade, Act IV, Scene 2

  6. And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

    Lord Saye, Act IV, Scene 7

  7. He dies, and makes no sign.

    King Henry, on the death of Cardinal Beaufort, Act III, Scene 3

  8. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

    King Henry, Act III, Scene 3

  9. It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

    Salisbury, Act V, Scene 1

  10. The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

    The Captain, Act IV, Scene 1

  11. Small things make base men proud.

    Suffolk, Act IV, Scene 1

  12. True nobility is exempt from fear.

    Suffolk, Act IV, Scene 1

  13. She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty.

    Queen Margaret, Act I, Scene 3