Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: Histories

July 18

Survive Confusion

My thoughts are whirled like a potter’s wheel:
I know not where I am, nor what I do.

–Henry VI Part 1,
Act I, Scene V
July 15

Take Your Time

I would not grow so fast, because
sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

–Richard III,
Act II, Scene iv
July 5

Fear Less

Things done well,
And with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

— Henry VIII,
Act I, Scene ii
July 1

Be Bold

Yield not thy neck
To fortune’s yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

–Henry VI Part 3,
Act III, Scene iii
June 26

Remember Who Helped You

For new-made honour doth forget men’s names.

–King John,
Act I, Scene i
June 24

Talk Less

He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded.

–Henry IV Part 1,
Act III, 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