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CONSTABLE: Disorder, that hath spoiled us, friend us now.
Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.
ORLÉANS: We are enough yet living in the field
To smother up the English in our throngs,
If any order might be thought upon.
BOURBON: The devil take order now! I’ll to the throng.
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry V, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 19ff (4.5.19-25) (1599)
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The French dealing with the disastrous rout of their initial attack at Agincourt.
Added on 31-Mar-25 | Last updated 31-Mar-25
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Topics: assault, attack, battle, chaos, charge, dishonor, disorder, human wave, numbers, order, shame, soldiers
More quotes by Shakespeare, William The man that lays his hand on woman,
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch
Whom ’twere gross flattery to name a coward.
John Tobin (1770–1804) British playwright
The Honey Moon, Act 2, sc. 1 [Duke] (1805)
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Added on 4-Jun-20 | Last updated 4-Jun-20
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Topics: abuse, assault, chivalry, violence
More quotes by Tobin, John Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American writer
Friday [Friday Jones] (1982)
Added on 22-Sep-15 | Last updated 22-Sep-15
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Topics: assault, ego, insult, macho, male, men, vengeance
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