123 quotes
Mourne not inevitable things; thy teares can spring no deeds
To helpe thee, nor recall thy sonne: impacience ever breeds
Ill upon ill, makes worst things worse.
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
Marriage is ever made by destiny.
All Fools (1605)
And left so free mine ears,
That I might hear the music of the spheres,
And all the angels singing out of heaven.
Euthymiae Raptus; or The Tears of Peace (1609)
Within a thicket I reposed; when round
I ruffled up fall’n leaves in heaps, and found,
Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.
Homer's Odysses (1614)
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel
For each man's good.
Too much desire to please, pleasure divorces.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
What man can blame
The Greeks and Trojans to endure, for so admired a dame,
So many miseries, and so long? In her sweet countenance shine
Looks like the goddesses'.
Two eagles, ...
That mounted on the winds, together still
Their strokes extended.
Homer's Odysses (1614)
This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man,
Unless he be a Politician?
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
We have watered our houses in Helicon.
May Day (1611)
The old Scythians
Painted blind Fortune’s powerful hands with wings,
To show her gifts come swift and suddenly,
Which, if her favourite be not swift to take,
He loses them forever.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
Gentle and noble are their tempers framed,
That can be quicken'd with perfumes and sounds.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
His deedes inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
Yet hath the morning sprinkled through the clouds
But half her tincture; and the sail of night
Sticks still upon the bosom of the air.
An Humorous Day's Mirth (1599)
News as wholesome as the morning air.
Hero and Leander (1600)
Cupid’s bonfires burning in the eye.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
An Humorous Day's Mirth (1599)
There is no danger to the man that knows
What life and death is; there's not any law
Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful
That he should stoop to any other law.
He goes before them, and commands them all,
That to himself is a law rational.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
Enough is as good as a feast.
Eastward Hoe (1605)