Francis Beaumont famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Desire #Too Much #Way
You are no better than you should be.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Should #Miscellaneous
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Wings #Bird #Heaven
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Love #Dog #Literature
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Growing Up #Men #Degrees
Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Hurt #Betrayal #Love Is
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Heart #Care #Shut Up
But what is past my help is past my care.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Past #Care #Helping
Bad's the best of us.
-- Francis Beaumont
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Path #Companionship #Pity
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Running #Envy #Literature
Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Red #Noses #Ginger
There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Beauty #Sweet #Mind
Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Grace #Desolation #Robes
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Heaven #Mercy #Attributes
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Sweet #Lovely #Melancholy
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Desire #Want #Littles
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Forgiveness #Men #Silence
Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Sweet #Children #Spring
Kiss till the cow comes home.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Home #Kissing #Cows
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Silence #Overcoming #Noble
My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!
-- Francis Beaumont

#Art #Forgive Me #Childhood
Our lives are but our marches to the grave.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Life #March #Graves
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Wisdom #Lying #Honor
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Sleep #Men #Sounder
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Men #Thinking #Secret

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