Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Henry VI Part 2.
Justice and Judgment Quotes
KING HENRYTomorrow toward London back again,To look into this business thoroughly,And call these foul offenders to their answers,And poise the cause in justice' equal scales,Whose beam stands sure,...
Society and Class Quotes
YORKIn face, in gait, in speech, he doth resemble.By this I shall perceive the Commons' mind,How they affect the house and claim of York.Say he be taken, racked, and torturèd,I know no pain they c...
Religion Quotes
KING HENRYO Lord, that lends me life,Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!For thou hast given me in this beauteous faceA world of earthly blessings to my soul,If sympathy of love unite our tho...
Loyalty Quotes
YORKA day will come when York shall claim his own;And therefore I will take the Nevils' partsAnd make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey,And, when I spy advantage, claim the crown. (1.1.250-253)
Gender Quotes
GLOUCESTERShall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance,Your deeds of war, and all our counsel die?O peers of England, shameful is this league,Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame,Blotting your...
Ambition Quotes
SALISBURYPride went before; Ambition follows him.While these do labor for their own preferment,Behooves it us to labor for the realm. (1.1.188-190)
Weakness Quotes
YORKI never read but England's kings have hadLarge sums of gold and dowries with their wives;And our King Henry gives away his ownTo match with her that brings no vantages. (1.1.134-137)
Lies and Deceit Quotes
YORKPirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage,And purchase friends and give to courtesans,Still reveling like lords till all be gone;While as the silly owner of the goodsWeep...