Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: Henry IV Part 2

  • August 18

    Claim a New Rule

    Presume not that I am the thing I was.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act V, Scene v

  • July 27

    Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

    Since all is well, keep it so: wake not a sleeping wolf.

    — Henry IV Part 2,
    Act I Scene ii

  • June 16

    Rest

    I were better to be eaten to death with a rust
    than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • June 8

    Tend Your Garden

    Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
    Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden
    And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

    –Henry VI Part 2,
    Act III, Scene i

  • Tickle Your Catastrophe

    Tickle Your Catastrophe

    You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!”

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act III, Scene i

  • May 17

    Fool’s Gold

    I am not only witty in myself,
    but the cause that wit is in other men.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
     Act I, Scene ii

  • Heard

    Heard

    Rumour is a pipe
    Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures…
    Why is Rumour here?

    –Henry IV, Part 2,
    Prologue