Henry IV of England

“They love not poison that do poison need.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“God knows, I had no such intent, but that necessity so bowed the state that I and greatness were compelled to kiss.”

“The hope and expectation of thy time is ruined, and the soul of every man prophetically do forethink thy fall.”

“Are these things then necessities? Then let us meet them like necessities.”

“I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land, to wash this blood off from my guilty hand.”

“So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant.”

“In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne.”

“Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?”

“O, that it could be proved that some night-tripping fairy had exchanged in cradle-clothes our children where they lay.”

“My blood hath been too cold and temperate, unapt to stir at these indignities.”