Quotes by Francis Beaumont
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
But what is past my help is past my care.
Bad's the best of us.
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
You are no better than you should be.
Kiss till the cow comes home.
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
Here the bones of birth have cried, 'Though Gods they were, as men they died'.
Bid her paint till day of doom, To this favour she must come....
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
this scythe that mows down kings Exempts no meaner mortal things.
For ever will I sleep, while poor maids cry, Alas, for pity stay, And let us die With thee, men cannot mock us in the clay.
Away delights, go seek some other dwelling, For I must die:
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Let no man fear to die we love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep
Know from this the world's a snare, How that greatness is but care,...
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
