Henry V (1944)

Arthur Hambling: Bates - Soldier in the English Army

Quotes 

• Bates - Soldier in the English Army : If we know we are the kings subjects: if his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes the crime of it out of us.

  Williams - Soldier in the English Army : But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afraid there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it.

• Bates - Soldier in the English Army : Be friends, you English fools, be friends! We have French quarrels enough, if you could tell how to reckon.