15 quotes
This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
The Honest Whore (1604)
And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.
Old Fortunatus (1599)
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
The Honest Whore (1604)
There's no music when a woman is in the concert.
The Honest Whore (1604)
To add to golden numbers golden numbers.
Patient Grissell (1599)
Not caring, so that sumpter-horse the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, with what coarse,
Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.
I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
The Honest Whore (1604)
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
The Honest Whore (1604)
The best of men
That e’er wore earth about him was a sufferer;
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
The Honest Whore (1604)
Honest labour bears a lovely face.
Patient Grissell (1599)
A wise man poor
Is like a sacred book that’s never read,—
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.
Old Fortunatus (1599)
ONAELIA: One step to human bliss is sweet revenge.
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
BALTHAZAR: Sin is a raven croaking her own fall.
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
O sweet content!
Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd?
O punishment!
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