King Henry VI, Part 2 Quotes

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“For where thou art, there is the world itself,
With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Salisbury:
Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:
'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,
Being opposites of such repairing nature.

York:
I know our safety is to follow them;
For, as I hear, the king is fled to London,
To call a present court of parliament.
Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth.
What says Lord Warwick? shall we after them?

Warwick:
After them! nay, before them, if we can.
Now, by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day:
Saint Alban's battle won by famous York
Shall be eternized in all age to come.
Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all:
And more such days as these to us befall!”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“ELEANOR, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER:

Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I could set my ten commandements in your face.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
The time of night when Troy was set on fire;
The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,
And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves,
That time best fits the work we have in hand.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“O Lord, that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just;
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Welcome is banishment; welcome were my death”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Dark shall be my light and night my day;
To think upon my pomp shall be my hell”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Well could I curse away a winter's night,
Though standing naked on a mountain top,
Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
And think it but a minute spent in sport.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“O, go not yet! Even thus two friends condemn'd
Embrace and kiss and take thousand leaves,
Loather a hundred times to part than die.
Yet now farewell; and farewell life with thee!”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Ay, Margaret; my heart is drown'd with grief,
Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes,
My body round engirt with misery,
For what's more miserable than discontent?
Ah, uncle Humphrey! in thy face I see
The map of honour, truth and loyalty:
And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come
That e'er I proved thee false or fear'd thy faith.
What louring star now envies thy estate,
That these great lords and Margaret our queen
Do seek subversion of thy harmless life?
Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong;
And as the butcher takes away the calf
And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays,
Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house,
Even so remorseless have they borne him hence;
And as the dam runs lowing up and down,
Looking the way her harmless young one went,
And can do nought but wail her darling's loss,
Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case
With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimm'd eyes
Look after him and cannot do him good,
So mighty are his vowed enemies.
His fortunes I will weep; and, 'twixt each groan
Say 'Who's a traitor? Gloucester he is none.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“A subtle traitor needs no sophister”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“O, let the vile world end,
And the premised flames of the last day”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed justices of peace, to call poor men before them about matters they were not able to answer. Moreover, thou hast put them in prison, and because they could not read, thou hast hanged them; when, indeed, only for that cause they have been most worthy to live.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Sunt mult mai mult decât ceea ce par
Și mai puțin decât ar trebui.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Trăim doar cum putem și tot murim...”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

“Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band, I will stir up in England some black storm Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell; And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage Until the golden circuit on my head, Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2