Henry IV, Part 2
29 quotes
Biography
"I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."
"A rascally yea-forsooth knave!"
"Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time."
"Since all is well, keep it so: wake not a sleeping wolf."
"We that are in the vaward of our youth."
"For my voice, — I have lost it with hollaing, and singing of anthems."
"It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common."
"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust, than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
"If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle."
"A good wit will make use of anything; I will turn diseases to commodity."
"Past, and to come, seem best; things present, worst."
"I’ll tickle your catastrophe."
"He hath eaten me out of house and home."
"Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Whitsun-week."
"I do now remember the poor creature, small beer."
"Let the end try the man."
"Thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us."
"I beseek you now, aggravate your choler."
"Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?"
"Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated: or when a man is, — being, — whereby, — he may be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing."
"Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble."
"We have heard the chimes at midnight."
"A man can die but once; — we owe God a death."
"I do remember him at Clement's-inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife."
"I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, — "I came, saw, and overcame.""