Henry IV Part 2 – Shakespeare Quote of the Day

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

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

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

–Henry IV Part 2,
Act III, Scene i

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

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

–Henry IV, Part 2,
Prologue

Don’t Lose Yourself

Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches after noon…

Thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.

–Henry IV Part 1,
Act I, Scene ii

Demure Boys

There’s never none of these demure boys
to any proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood,
making many fish-meals, that they fall into a kind of male
green-sickness…They are generally fools and cowards.

–Henry IV Part 2,
Act IV, Scene iii

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