1590s
Showing 163 quotes from the 1590s
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Against my soul's pure truth why labor you To make it wander in an unknown field?
It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd, To think their dolour others have endur'd.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy.
Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eyes, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
Away, you scullion, you rampallian, you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe.
Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, Poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator.
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Let me embrace the sour adversaries, For wise men say it is the wisest course.
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.