Prince Hal Quotes

• Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.

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  William Shakespeare

  Brother   Soul   Thee  

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.415, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Real   Men   Play  

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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• Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.

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  William Shakespeare

  Kings   Courtesy   Wales  

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. 1-2. Henry V".

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• I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

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  William Shakespeare

  Stars   Thinking   Two  

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.446, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

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  William Shakespeare

  Laughing   Pity   Should  

  William Shakespeare (1747). “The works of Shakespear, with a glossary, pr. from the Oxford ed. in quarto, 1744 [by Sir T.Hanmer].”, p.27

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• Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

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  William Shakespeare

  Blessed   Flames   House  

  1596-7 Prince Harry to Falstaff. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.6-12.

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