Occupation: Playwright Birth: June 11, 1572 Death: August 6, 1637
Our whole life is like a play..
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or frien….
He threatens many that hath injured one..
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer..
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause..
Sweet meat must have sour sauce..
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting..
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty..
How near to good is what is fair!.
What excellent fools religion makes of men..
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise w….
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you..
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly..
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence..
My thoughts and I were of another world..
A good dog deserves a good bone..
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home..
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be..
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed..
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own..
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail..