Quotes About Henry V

#1. 'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'

Kenneth Branagh

#2. Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe ... Chorus Henry V

William Shakespeare

#3. I think he would not wish himself anywhere but where he is." - Henry V, Act IV, scene i

William Shakespeare

#4. There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

Helen Mirren

#5. We can finally start translating the book," Cate said. "At least, I think we can."

"A rousing call, not dissimilar from the band of brothers speech in Henry V." [reply from Noah]

Nina Post

#6. Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt.

Jodi Taylor

#7. If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

David Tennant

#8. Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

Mark Rylance

#9. In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

Ian Doescher

#10. 'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

Manny Farber

#11. The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

Peter Ackroyd

#12. There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#13. I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

Finn Wittrock

#14. In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.

Kenneth Branagh

#15. She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

David Nicholls

#16. People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

Ian Doescher

#17. I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

David Starkey

#18. Don't let 'em see they killed you!

Henry V. O'Neil

#19. If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#20. On the technical side, Apollo 8 was mainly a test flight for the Saturn V and the Apollo spacecraft. The main spacecraft system that needed testing on a real lunar flight was the onboard navigation system.

Henry Spencer

#21. You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life ... and of death.

Henry V. O'Neil

#22. This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.

Henry V. O'Neil

#23. No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.

Henry V. O'Neil

#24. He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he'd peed himself, it didn't matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.

Henry V. O'Neil

#25. It's important to have a buddy like that. Somebody who'll stop you from doing that really stupid thing you were gonna do just because you couldn't think of anything better.
unidentified soldier, eulogizing his dead buddy

Henry V. O'Neil

#26. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

#27. With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

Henry V. O'Neil

#28. Because Banshees don't think much of medals!

Henry V. O'Neil

#29. This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try.

Henry V. O'Neil

#30. Katherine. Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is like me.
KING HENRY. An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.
KATHERINE. Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?

William Shakespeare

#31. Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.

Henry V. O'Neil

#32. Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

Henry V. O'Neil

#33. Therm-bombs! Drop 'em right on us! I been roasted before - it's nothing!

Henry V. O'Neil

#34. I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

Henry V. O'Neil

#35. Food's the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn't believe how fast they consume what they're carrying, and then ... if I don't get them more, if I don't find them more ... they die.

Henry V. O'Neil

#36. [Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

William Shakespeare

#37. Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

Henry V. O'Neil

#38. You help us, they'll lock you up for the rest of your life.

Henry V. O'Neil

#39. But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?"
Catherine: "I cannot tell."
Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

William Shakespeare

#40. If we are mark'd to die, we are enough To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour.

William Shakespeare

#41. Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you've got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you've got a herd.

Henry V. O'Neil

#42. It's a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose ... than when they do it by accident.

Henry V. O'Neil

#43. Some of the things that beat the shit out of you ... can beat the bullshit out of you too.

Henry V. O'Neil

#44. Never diagnosed the enemy before.

Henry V. O'Neil

#45. Remember what they did to Broadleaf, and remember what they did to us. Now it's time for us to kill 'em back.

Henry V. O'Neil

#46. How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

Henry V. O'Neil

#47. That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow.

Henry V. O'Neil

#48. I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography.

Henry V. O'Neil