John Suckling famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.
-- John Suckling

#Pain #Heart #Men
Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
-- John Suckling

#Meat #Delight #Eating
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.
-- John Suckling

#Sorrow #Weaving #Spinning
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
-- John Suckling

#Guilt #Shadow #Evening
Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.
-- John Suckling

#Weather #Together #Three
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
-- John Suckling

#Happiness #Joy #Firsts
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear...
-- John Suckling

#Blessing #Expectations #Anticipation
But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.
-- John Suckling

#Dance #Easter #Sight
She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.
-- John Suckling

#Relationship #Witty #Thinking
I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
-- John Suckling

#Broken Heart #Heart #Broken
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
-- John Suckling

#Opportunity #Degrees #Heat
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
-- John Suckling

#Hope #Blessing #Expectations
Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
-- John Suckling

#Life #Moving #Lovers
A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.
-- John Suckling

#Eye #Night #Glasses

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