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• I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatne
  And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting....
• Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of ma
  o-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him...
• Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry V -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• I come not To hear such flattery now, and in my presence.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII -- Act v, Sc. 3...
• For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII -- Act iv, Sc. 2...