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George Wither
7 quotes
“Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman’s fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, ’Cause another’s rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?”
George Wither (1588–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Shepherd's Resolution; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?", Sir Walter Raleigh, Poem.
“Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.”
George Wither (1588–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem on Christmas; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, And therefore let ’s be merry.”
George Wither (1588–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem on Christmas; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Hang sorrow! care ’ll kill a cat", Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act i. Sc. 3.
“Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.”
George Wither (1588–1667) first seen 1615 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And I oft have heard defended,— Little said is soonest mended.”
George Wither (1588–1667) first seen 1615 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws.”
George Wither (1588–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Contented Man’s Morrice; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I loved a lass, a fair one, As fair as e'er was seen; She was indeed a rare one, Another Sheba queen: But, fool as then I was, I thought she loved me too: But now, alas! she's left me, Falero, lero, loo!”
George Wither (1588–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Loved a Lass; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390.