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Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
Topic: Action
Source: The Captain (act V, sc. 5)
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Let's meet and either do or die.
Topic: Action
Source: The Island Princess (act II, sc. 2)
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Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act V, sc. 3, l. 170)
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To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense
of tranquility which religion fails to bestow.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act V, sc. 3, l. 170)
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There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty.
Topic: Beauty
Source: The Elder Brother (act III, sc. 5)
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Beggars must be no choosers.
Topic: Beggary
Source: Scornful Lady (act V, sc. 3)
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That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
Topic: Books
Source: The Elder Brother (act I, sc. 2, l. 177)
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Charity and treating begin at home.
Topic: Charity
Source: Wit without Money (sc. 2)
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Let them learn first to show pity at home.
Topic: Charity
Source: Wit without Money (sc. 2)
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'Tis not a life,
'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
Topic: Childhood
Source: Philaster (act V, sc. 2, l. 15)
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Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
Topic: Corruption
Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act III, sc. 3)
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My dancing days are done.
Topic: Dancing
Source: Scornful Lady (act V, sc. 3)
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Death hath so many doors to let out life.
Topic: Death
Source: The Custom of the Country (act II, sc. 2)
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We must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so
Need lamentation for him?
Topic: Death
Source: Valentinian (act IV, sc. 4)
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Deeds, not words.
Topic: Deeds
Source: Lover's Progress (act III, sc. 6)
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All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
Topic: Deeds
Source: Philaster (act V, sc. 3)
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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.]
Topic: Deeds
Source: Philaster (act V, sc. 3)
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It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.
Topic: Discretion
Source: A King and No King (act IV, sc. 3)
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Nose, nose, holly red nose,
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;
And they gave me this jolly red nose.
Topic: Drinking
Source: Knight of the Burning Pestle (act I, sc. 4)
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Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.
Topic: Epitaphs
Source: Tragedy of Bonduca (act IV, sc. 3)
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Evil beginning houres may end in good.
Topic: Evil
Source: The Knight of Malta (act II, sc. 5)
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Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
Topic: Eyes
Source: The Loyal Subject
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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.
Topic: Fame
Source: The False One (act II, sc. 1, l. 169)
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Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
That what was worn some twenty years ago
Comes into grace again.
Topic: Fashion
Source: Prologue to the Noble Gentleman (l. 4)
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Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall presume to prophesy their date,
Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Topic: Fate
Source: Rejected Addresses--By Lord Cui Bono
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Fortune, now see, now proudly
Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,
Look what thou hast brought this land to!--
Topic: Fortune
Source: The Tragedy of Bonduca (act V, sc. 5)
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No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
Topic: Friends
Source: The Faithful Friends (act III, sc. 3, l. 50)
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One foot in the grave.
Topic: Grave
Source: The Little French Lawyer (act I, sc. 1)
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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.
Topic: Greatness
Source: The False One (act II, sc. 1, l. 169)
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A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
Topic: Habit
Source: Beggar's Bush (act II, sc. 3, l. 210)
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To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.
Topic: Happiness
Source: The Fair Maid of the Inn (act I, sc. 1, l. 250)
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Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Topic: Hunger
Source: The Honest Man's Fortune (act II, sc. 2, l. 1)
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Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything;
The world's a fine believing world, write news.
Topic: Journalism
Source: Wit without Money (act II)
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But is there nothing else,
That we may do but only walk? Methinks
Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.
Topic: Kisses
Source: A King and No King (act IV, sc. 4)
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Kiss till the cows come home.
Topic: Kisses
Source: Scornful Lady (act II, sc. 2)
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He that's liberal
To all alike, may do a good by chance,
But never out of judgment.
Topic: Liberality
Source: The Spanish Curate (act I, sc. 1)
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That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.
Topic: Libraries
Source: The Elder Brother (act I, sc. 2, l. 177)
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Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
Topic: Man
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 2)
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I find the medicine worse than the malady.
Topic: Medicine
Source: Love's Cure (act III, sc. 2)
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Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Topic: Misfortune
Source: Four Plays in One--The Triumph of Honour (sc. 1, l. 67)
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Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
Topic: Nature
Source: Philaster (act III, sc. 1)
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There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: Custom of the Country (act II, sc. 3, l. 85)
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Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
Topic: Passion
Source: The Nice Valour--Song (act III, sc. 3)
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What's one man's poison, signior,
Is another's meat or drink.
Topic: Poison
Source: Love's Cure (act III, sc. 2)
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Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.
Topic: Power
Source: The Chances (act II, sc. 2, song)
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No better than you should be.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: The Coxcomb (act IV, sc. 3)
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As cold as cucumbers.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Cupid's Revenge (act I, sc. 1)
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From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: The Honest Man's Fortune (act II, sc. 2)
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As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act IV, sc. 1)
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This is a pretty flimflam.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Little French Lawyer (III, 3)
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