Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Henry VIII.
Truth Quotes
PROLOGUETo rank our chosen truth with such a show As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting Our own brains and the opinion that we bring, To make that only true we now intend, Will leave us never an...
Women and Femininity Quotes
FIRST GENTLEMANSure he does not;He never was so womanish. The causeHe may a little grieve at. (2.1.46-48)
Fate and Free Will Quotes
BUCKINGHAMMy surveyor is false. The o'ergreat cardinalHath showed him gold. My life is spanned already.I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,Whose figure even this instant cloud puts onBy dark'ning my...
Society and Class Quotes
BUCKINGHAMThis butcher's cur is venom-mouthed, and IHave not the power to muzzle him; therefore bestNot wake him in his slumber. A beggar's bookOutworths a noble's blood. (1.1.143-146)
Spirituality Quotes
BUCKINGHAMGo with me like good angels to my end,And as the long divorce of steel falls on me,Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,And lift my soul to heaven. (2.1.92-95)
Principles Quotes
NORFOLK I advise you—And take it from a heart that wishes towards youHonor and plenteous safety—that you readThe Cardinal's malice and his potencyTogether; to consider further thatWhat his high...
Compassion and Forgiveness Quotes
KINGTo every countyWhere this is questioned send our letters withFree pardon to each man that has deniedThe force of this commission. Pray look to 't;I put it to your care. (1.2.113-117)
Manipulation Quotes
BUCKINGHAMThe devil speed him! No man's pie is freedFrom his ambitious finger. What had heTo do in these fierce vanities? I wonderThat such a keech can with his very bulkTake up the rays o' th' ben...