Francis Beaumont Quotes

Kiss till the cow comes home.

My hard fortunes
Deserve not scorn; for I was never proud
When they were good.

You are no better than you should be.

As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

Bellario. Sir, you did take me up
When I was nothing; and only yet am something
By being yours. You trusted me unknown;
And that which you were apt to conster
A simple innocence in me, perhaps
Might have been craft, the cunning of a boy
Hardened in lies and theft: yet ventured you
To part my miseries and me; for which,
I never can expect to serve a lady
That bears more honour in her breast than you.

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

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

But what is past my help is past my care.

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!

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

The fool that willingly provokes a woman, has made himself another evil angel and a new hell to which all other torments are but mere pastime...

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

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.

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.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

The hand of Heaven is on me, be it far from me to struggle, if my secret sins have pull'd this curse upon me, lend me tears now to wash me white, that I may feel a child-like innocence within my breast; which once perform'd, O give me leave to stand as fix'd as constancy her self, my eyes set here unmov'd, regardless of the world though thousand miseries incompass me.