Henry IV Part 1 Quote Identification Quiz

“Yet herein will I imitate the sun, who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty.”

“O monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!”

“Zounds, I’ll not give up my prisoners.”

“When the Prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor.”

“God save the mark! I knew a man of your age that had about two dozen of names for dishonesty.”

“O, I should have a heavy miss of thee if I were much in love with vanity.”

“I would to God you would name her name.”

“Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the particulars of my life.”

“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon.”

“Thy ignominy sleeps with thee in the grave, but thou shalt live in honor.”

“O, that it could be proved that some night-tripping fairy had exchanged in cradle-clothes our children where they lay!”

“I’ll so offend to make offense a skill.”

“Before I loved thee, thou didst run and bark.”

“Send us your prisoners, or you shall hear of it.”

“Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion and showed thou mak’st some tender of my life.”

“Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack and unbuttoning thee after supper.”

“O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!”

“I’ll see her damned first; to Wales? to her? to Wales with me?”

“I will imitate the honorable Romans in brevity.”

“When I was born the wind was north.”

“So when this loose behavior I throw off and pay the debt I never promised.”

“I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humor of your idleness.”

“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”

“Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.”

“The better part of valor is discretion.”

“O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth.”

“I am not yet of Percy’s mind, the Hotspur of the north, he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at breakfast.”

“Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.”

“If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.”

“Honor is a mere scutcheon.”