John Lyly Quotes
1550–1606 England
John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. 1553 – 1606) was an English writer, best known for his Euphues (1578).
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Also known as: Midas (Lyly play), Campaspe (play), Gallathea, Mother Bombie, Sapho and Phao
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Fish and guests in three days are stale.
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
Euphues (1580)
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
Midas (1591)
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
Euphues (1580)
Is any cozened of a tear
Which as a pearl disdain does wear?
Here stands the thief; let her come
Hither, and lay on him her doom.
Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.
I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.
As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions.
Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde.
Since your eyes are so sharpe, that you cannot onely looke through a milstone, but cleane through the minde.
The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke.
Euphues. Arber's reprint (1579)
Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth.
Euphues (1580)
Is it not true which Seneca reporteth, that as too much bending breaketh the bowe, so too much remission spoyleth the minde?
Euphues (1580)
For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.
Euphues (1580)
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
Euphues (1580)
The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.