Henry IV, Part 1

"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."

"Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember’d in thy epitaph!"

"O, Harry, thou hast robbd me of my youth!"

"The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life."

"I would to God, thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought."

"Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know."

"And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility."

"Diana’s foresters, Gentlemen of the shade, Minions of the moon."

"And telling me, the sovereign’st thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg’d Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy’d So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier."

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

"So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify mens hopes; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering oer my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off."

"Thou hast the most unsavory similes; and art, indeed, the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young prince."