“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
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About this quote
Hal says it while playing the king in front of his father, and the line prices the crown in a single couplet. It survives as the most quoted sentence about the private cost of public office, and it is the one used for monarchs, presidents and anybody who cannot switch the job off at the end of the day.
Source: Henry IV, Part 2, Act 1, Scene 2