WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:42:55 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg human wave – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Shakespeare, William -- Henry V, Act 4, sc. 5, l. 19ff (4.5.19-25) (1599) https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/75943/ https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/75943/#respond Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:43:28 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=75943 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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