John Ford Quotes
b. 1586 England
John Ford (1586 – c. 1640) was one of the last English playwrights in the great Jacobean school that produced Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Jonson.
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29 quotes
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.
Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.
Sister, look ye,
How, by a new creation of my tailor's
I've shook off old mortality.
Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play
With the severity of fate.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Flattery
Is monstrous in a true friend.
Titles of honour add not to his worth,
Who is himself an honour to his titles.
Oh, happy kings,
Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.
Glories
Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams,
And shadows soon decaying.
Nice philosophy
May tolerate unlikely arguments,
But heaven admits no jest.
We can drink till all look blue.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Ford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.