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Prince Hal/King Henry V
As drunken and unscrupulously depraved as he is witty and lovable, Falstaff is Prince Hal’s best friend. Though he often expounds with virtuosic elegance about his heroism, uprightness, and worth, Falstaff is in fact constantly scheming to rob and cheat others to his own advantage. Falstaff fully expects that when Hal rises to become king, that he himself will be able to control the law and will get a plum job in the king's court. King Henry V’s sudden turn against Falstaff at play’s end may demonstrate the young king’s newfound moral clarity, but also stands out as the most heartbreaking moment in the play.
Sir John Falstaff Quotes in Henry IV Part 2
The Henry IV Part 2 quotes below are all either spoken by Sir John Falstaff or refer to Sir John Falstaff. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1, Scene 2
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? is not your voice broken? your wind short? your chin double? your wit single? and every part about you blasted with antiquity? and will you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John! (155-160)
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A man can no more separate age and covetousness than a' can part young limbs and lechery: but the gout galls the one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the degrees prevent my curses. (198-200)
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Act 3, Scene 2
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! (263)
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Act 5, Scene 5
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I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane;
But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men.
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest. (43-52)
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Sir John Falstaff Quotes in Henry IV Part 2
The Henry IV Part 2 quotes below are all either spoken by Sir John Falstaff or refer to Sir John Falstaff. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1, Scene 2
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? is not your voice broken? your wind short? your chin double? your wit single? and every part about you blasted with antiquity? and will you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John! (155-160)
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A man can no more separate age and covetousness than a' can part young limbs and lechery: but the gout galls the one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the degrees prevent my curses. (198-200)
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Act 3, Scene 2
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! (263)
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Act 5, Scene 5
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I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane;
But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape
For thee thrice wider than for other men.
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest. (43-52)
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