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Explanation of the famous quotes in Henry IV, Part 1, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
Read our selection of the very best quotes from Henry IV Part 1, along with speaker, act and scene. The play is set in early fifteenth-century England during the reign of King Henry IV, and moves rapidly around the country.
A list of well-known quotes from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I.
- “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” The King in Henry IV, Part 2 (3.1.31) At a time of night when most of his subjects are asleep, the king is up and busy about his affairs.
- “My crown I am, but still my griefs are mine. You may my glories and my state depose but not my griefs; still am I king of those.” King Richard in Richard II (4.1.200-203)
- “I think the King is but a man, as I am. The violet smells to him as it doth to me. The element shows to him as it doth to me. All his senses have but human conditions.
- “We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape till custom make it their perch and not their terror.”
King Henry: The King himself, who, Douglas, grieves at heart, So many of his shadows thou hast met. And not the very king. (Act 5, scene 4, lines 25–31) During the battle that takes place in act 5, the Earl of Douglas learns that there are several “counterfeit” kings on the battlefield.
A list of well-known quotes from Henry IV Part II, listed in order of appearance in the play Jasper Britton as King Henry IV and Alex Hassell as Prince Henry in Gregory Doran's Henry IV Part Ii in 2014
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King Henry makes numerous projections about the future, and these lines constitute one of his more elaborate prophecies. Couched within a request to God to allow him to “read the book of fate,” Henry indulges in an apocalyptic vision of biblical proportions.
