Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

84 Famous Quotes by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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“What mare's nest hast thou found?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Bonduca (IV, 2)
“Hit the nail on the head.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 1)
“Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 2)
“I'll put a spoke among your wheels.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Mad Lover (III, 5)
“After supper walk a mile.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Philaster (II, 4)
“I'll have a fling.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (III, 5)
“He comes not in my books.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Widow
“Whistle, and she'll come to you.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Wit without Money (act IV, sc. 4)
“No better than you should be.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes
Source: The Coxcomb (act IV, sc. 3)
“As cold as cucumbers.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes
Source: Cupid's Revenge (act I, sc. 1)
“From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes
Source: The Honest Man's Fortune (act II, sc. 2)
“As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes
Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act IV, sc. 1)
“This is a pretty flimflam.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes
Source: Little French Lawyer (III, 3)
“Something given that way.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes
Source: The Lovers' Progress (act I, sc. 1)
“'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.”
Words Quotes
Source: The Spanish Curate (act II, sc. 5, Song)
“Evil beginning houres may end in good.”
Evil Quotes
Source: The Knight of Malta (act II, sc. 5)
“Though I say't that should not say't.”
Speech Quotes
Source: Wit at Several Weapons (act II, sc. 2)
“Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.”
Speech Quotes
Source: Wit Without Money (act IV, sc. 4)
“Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.”
Eyes Quotes
Source: The Loyal Subject
“Deeds, not words.”
Deeds Quotes
Source: Lover's Progress (act III, sc. 6)
“All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.”
Deeds Quotes
Source: Philaster (act V, sc. 3)
“An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde.]”
Deeds Quotes
Source: Philaster (act V, sc. 3)
“Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.”
Suicide Quotes
Source: The Honest Man's Fortune (act IV, sc. 1)
“One foot in the grave.”
Grave Quotes
Source: The Little French Lawyer (act I, sc. 1)
“Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.”
Fame Quotes
Source: The False One (act II, sc. 1, l. 169)