Henry V

Military King English 1386 – 1422

English king; won Battle of Agincourt; claimed French throne.

393 quotes

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"
Courage
"I know no ways to minion my condition but thus"
Leadership
"All things are ready, if our minds be so"
Motivation
"The fewer men, the greater share of honour"
Success
"I would not lose so great an honour as one man more methinks would share from me"
Leadership
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"
Friendship
"He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart"
Courage
"I myself will bear the comment of the time"
Strength
"Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but he'll remember with advantages what feats he did that day"
Time
"From this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered"
Inspiration
"There is some soul of goodness in things evil"
Wisdom
"The King's a beggar, now the cause his sovereign to keep with him"
"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things"
Wisdom
"Now is the winter of our discontent"
Change
"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps"
Love
"When once more I do embrace him, he will tell how Henry V, when raging on the sea, took by the throat the circumcised dog"
Power
"I know thy quality and thy place"
Truth
"Demand of me and I shall answer without book"
Knowledge
"I have no care of gold nor silver"
Money
"Witness our too much memorable shame when Cressy battle fatally was struck"
History
"The self-same wind that carries far away; far away"
Nature
"To seek for peace, we must seek for truth"
Peace
"Thy kinsmen and thy friends attainted and condemned for reason"
Justice
"We shall defend our freedom with our lives"
Freedom
"I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise"
Strength
"The weight of all Christendom lies upon my shoulders"
"In faith I do not care; there be no gunks else in the world but Calais"
"Constancy is the virtue of all things"
Perseverance
"What have kings that privates have not too, save ceremony?"
Philosophy
"Cowards father cowards and have no sparks of valor"
Courage