John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

15 Famous Quotes by John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
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“A cleere conscience is a sure carde.”
Conscience Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 207), Arbor's reprint
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
Conscience Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 207), Arbor's reprint
“Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.”
Comparisons Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 215)
“Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.”
Apparel Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 39), (1759 edition)
“As busie as a Bee.”
Bees Quotes
Source: Euphues and his England (p. 252)
“Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),”
Teaching Quotes
Source: Euphues--The Anatomy of Wit--Of the Education of Youth
“There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.”
Fire Quotes
Source: Euphes and his Emphoebus (p. 153), (Arber's Reprint)
“The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.”
Kindness Quotes
Source: Mother Bombie (act III, sc. 1)
“None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.”
Larks Quotes
Source: Alexander and Campaspe (act V, sc. 1)
“What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale-- Jug, jug, jug, jug--tereu, she cries, And still her woes at midnight rise.”
Nightingales Quotes
Source: The Songs of Birds
“The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke.”
Perseverance Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 81), (Arber's 1579 reprint)
“I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.”
Eating Quotes
Source: Euphues and his England (p. 308)
“Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.”
Sun Quotes
Source: Euphues
“The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.”
Sun Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 43)
“You are in some brown study.”
Study Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 80), (Arber's reprint)(1579)
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