Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: Henry IV Part 2

  • September 19

    Be Wiser

    Thus we play the fools with the time,
    and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act II Scene ii

  • Fizzled

    Fizzled

    You are as a candle, the better part burnt out.

    -Henry IV Part 2,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • 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

  • 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