Do you distinguish Falstaff’s wit from the King’s solemn proclamations without a second thought? This Henry IV Part 1 Quotes Quiz is designed to catch those who don’t really know their iambic pentameter from their drunken prose. Listen to the Bard’s dialogue below with your ear.
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Henry IV Part 1 Quotes Quiz Questions
- “I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humor of your idleness.”
- “So when this loose behavior I throw off and pay the debt I never promised.”
- “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”
- “Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.”
- “The better part of valor is discretion.”
- “By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon.”
- “Yet herein will I imitate the sun, who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty.”
- “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.”
- “Honor is a mere scutcheon.”
- “O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!”
- “Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion and showed thou mak’st some tender of my life.”
- “Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the particulars of my life.”
- “O, that it could be proved that some night-tripping fairy had exchanged in cradle-clothes our children where they lay!”
- “If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.”
- “O, I should have a heavy miss of thee if I were much in love with vanity.”
- “Zounds, I’ll not give up my prisoners.”
- “Before I loved thee, thou didst run and bark.”
- “When I was born the wind was north.”
- “I’ll so offend to make offense a skill.”
- “God save the mark! I knew a man of your age that had about two dozen of names for dishonesty.”
- “I will imitate the honorable Romans in brevity.”
- “O monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!”
- “Send us your prisoners, or you shall hear of it.”
- “I would to God you would name her name.”
- “Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.”
- “When the Prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor.”
- “I’ll see her damned first; to Wales? to her? to Wales with me?”
- “Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack and unbuttoning thee after supper.”
- “Thy ignominy sleeps with thee in the grave, but thou shalt live in honor.”
- “O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth.”