You claim to know the famous breach speech, but can you actually identify the lines spoken by the common soldiers in the dark of night? If you haven’t studied the many voices of the English camp, this Henry V Quotes Quiz will humble you. Try the Bard’s dialogue below on your ear.
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Henry V Quotes Quiz Questions
- “When we have matched our rackets to these balls, we will, in France, by God’s grace, play a set.”
- “Men of few words are the best men.”
- “The French have reinforced their scattered men. Then every soldier kill his prisoners.”
- “I love the lovely bully, what shall I do?”
- “Kill the boys and the luggage! ’Tis expressly against the law of arms.”
- “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”
- “I was not angry since I came to France until this instant.”
- “There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distil it out.”
- “Now entertain conjecture of a time when creeping murmur and the poring dark fills the wide vessel of the universe.”
- “Would it were day! Alas, poor Harry of England!”
- “Thou hast lost thy best of friends.”
- “Every subject’s duty is the king’s, but every subject’s soul is his own.”
- “Therefore take heed how you impawn our person.”
- “I think the king is but a man as I am.”
- “The fewer men, the greater share of honour.”
- “From this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered.”
- “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”
- “Hang him, brave captain, and you do, I warrant you, he will be hanged.”
- “You see me here as one man more than another.”
- “I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle.”
- “Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet?”
- “The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!”
- “Your majesté shall mock at me, I cannot speak your England.”
- “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.”
- “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”
- “O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.”
- “The game's afoot: follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’”
- “If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss.”
- “The better part of valour is discretion.”
- “I do not seek to put you to a test of love, but to a trial of obedience.”