Quotes from Henry VI, Part 1

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
You are deceived, my substance is not here;”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“But you, that are polluted with your lusts, Stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents, Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices, Because you want the grace that others have, You judge it straight a thing impossible To compass wonders but by help of devils.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“No more can I be sever'd from your side, Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am, nor what I do;”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode: But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“When a world of men
Could not prevail with all their oratory,
Yet hath a woman's kindness overrul'd;”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight? Aye, beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

“Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Henry VI, Part 1

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