| 26 Famous Quotes by Thomas Middleton
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“Anything for a quiet life.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: title of a play
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“Hold their nose to the grindstone.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Blurt, Master Constable (act III, sc. 3)
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“Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“I have been a soldier,
Till the helm hath worn those aged temples bare.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“The less of this cold world the more of heaven.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“All was false and hollow, though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear
The better reason.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“And with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“For evil news rides post, while good news baits.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
A melancholy damp of cold and dry
To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
The balm of life.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“How fallen, how changed
From him, who, in the happy realms of light,
Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
Myriads, though bright.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“Laughter holding both his sides.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“Let no man seek
Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall
Him or his children.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“Then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“Two other precious drops that ready stood,
Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell
Kiss'd.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“Two other tender drops, which ready stood,
Each in their crystal sluice.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“Who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Roaring Girl (act II, sc. 1)
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“By many a happy accident.”
Accident Quotes Source: No Wit, no Help, like a Women's (act IV, sc. 1)
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“My nearest
And dearest enemy.”
Enemies Quotes Source: Anything for a Quiet Life (act V, sc. 1)
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Thomas Middleton Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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