Henry VI, Part 1

"Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!"

"Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon, And fightest with the sword of Deborah."

"Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days."

"My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do."

"I have heard it said "Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.""

"Faith, I have been a truant in the law; And never yet could frame my will to it; And, therefore, frame the law unto my will."

"Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye; — I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw."

"Plantagenet: Let him, that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Somerset: Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me."

"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."

"We will bestow you in some better place, Fitter for sickness and for crazy age."

"Or who should study to prefer a peace."

"I owe him little duty and less love."

"So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, Keeping them prisoners underneath her wings."

"Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses rough."

"She’s beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore to be won."

"To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility, For princes should be free."

"Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship."