“He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.”

“Discretion is the better part of valor.”

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”

“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.”

“I am a bastard, too. I love bastards! I am bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valor, in everything illegitimate.”

“though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy”

“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”