Here is a selection of quotes from Henry VIII, a play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher.
Order gave each thing view.
(Norfolk, Act 1 Scene 1)
Be to yourself
As you would to your friend.
(Norfolk, Act 1 Scene 1)
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.
(Norfolk, Act 1 Scene 1)
'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
That virtue must go through.
(Cardinal Wolsey, Act 1 Scene 2)
The mirror of all courtesy.
(Second Gentleman, Act 2 Scene 1)
'Tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perked up in a glist’ring grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.
(Anne, Act 2 Scene 3)
Orpheus, with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing.
(Woman, Act 3 Scene 1)
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
And from that full meridian of my glory,
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more.
(Cardinal Wolsey, Act 3 Scene 2)
I feel within me
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.
(Cardinal Wolsey, Act 3 Scene 2)
A load would sink a navy: too much honour.
(Cardinal Wolsey, Act 3 Scene 2)
Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee:
Corruption wins not more than honesty.
(Cardinal Wolsey, Act 3 Scene 2)
Men’s evil manners live in brass, their virtues
We write in water.
(Griffith, Act 4 Scene 2)
Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honour.
(Cranmer, Act 5 Scene 4)