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John Fletcher
65 quotes
“Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1613 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chances (c. 1613–25; 1647), Act II, scene 2, Song
“Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil! What an inviting hell invented.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1610 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Monsieur Thomas (c. 1610–16; pub. 1639), Act III, scene 1
“Death hath so many doors to let out life.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1619 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Custom of the Country (with Philip Massinger; c. 1619–23; pub. 1647), Act II, scene 2
Also quoted by: Beaumont And Fletcher
“Let's meet and either do or die.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1620 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Island Princess (c. 1620; pub. 1647), Act II, scene 2. Compare: "Let us do or die", Robert Burns, Bannockburn; same in Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming, part iii. stanza 37
“Of all the paths lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Knight of Malta (1647), Act I, sc. i
“'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being restrained, a heart is broken.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1622 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Spanish Curate (licensed 24 October 1622; 1647), Act II, scene 5, Song
“Something given that way.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1623 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lover's Progress (licensed 6 December 1623; rev. 1634; pub. 1647), Act I, scene 1
“Deeds, not words.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1623 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lover's Progress (licensed 6 December 1623; rev. 1634; pub. 1647), Act iii. Sc. 4. Compare: "Deeds, not words", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part i, canto i, line 867
“I'll put a spoke among your wheels.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1617 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Mad Lover, (acted 5 January 1617; 1647), Act III, scene 5
“Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1615 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Nice Valour (c. 1615–25; pub. 1647), Act iii, scene 3
“Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Nice Valor (1647), Melancholy. Compare: "Naught so sweet as melancholy", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
“Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Queen of Corinth (1647), Act III, sc. ii. Compare: "Weep no more, Lady! weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain; For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again", Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient E…
“I'll have a fling.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1624 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (licensed 19 October 1624; 1640), Act III, scene 5
“O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1613 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Two Noble Kinsmen (with William Shakespeare; c. 1613; pub. 1634), Act V, scene 1
Also quoted by: Beaumont And Fletcher
“Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wild Goose Chase (c. 1621; pub. 1652), Act II. 2
“Though I say't that should not say't.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1610 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wit at Several Weapons (with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley; c. 1610–20; pub. 1647), Act II, scene 2
“Go far—too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;— One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain, The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1611 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed (c. 1611; pub. 1647), Act IV, scene 5, line 199
“All love’s emblems, and all cry, "Ladies, if not pluck’d, we die.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him?”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Care-charming sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose On this afflicted prince; fall like a cloud In gentle showers; give nothing that is loud Or painful to his slumbers; easy, light, And as a purling stream, thou son of night, Pass by his troubled senses, sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind or gentle rain. Into this prince gently, oh, gently slide, And kiss him into slumbers like a bride.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God Lyaeus, ever young, Ever honour’d, ever sung, Stain’d with blood of lusty grapes, In a thousand lusty shapes Dance upon the mazer’s brim, In the crimson liquor swim; From thy plenteous hand divine Let a river run with wine: God of youth, let this day here Enter neither care nor fear.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What mare's nest hast thou found?”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sing a song of sixpence.”
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“Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou hast brought this land to!—”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.”
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“Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still; And when the stars are labouring, we believe It is not that they govern, but they grieve For stubborn ignorance; all things that are Made for our general uses, are at war, — Even we among ourselves; and from the strife, Your first unlike opinions got a life.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man is his own star, and that soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Charity and treating begin at home.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let them learn first to show pity at home.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He 'as had a stinger.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vow me no vows.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whistle, and she'll come to you.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Beaumont And Fletcher
“Let the world slide.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Beaumont And Fletcher, William Shakespeare
“Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd, And then they shine.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll put that in my considering cap.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: John Fletcher (dramaturgo) (pt)
“And he that will to bed go sober Falls with the leaf in October.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallow-tree.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we. As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallows tree.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) first seen 1595 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Act III, scene iii. Compare: "Three merry men be we", George Peele, Old Wives' Tale, 1595. John Webster (quoted), Westward Hoe, 1607.
“Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears! But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The foot in the grave.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First come, first served.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One good turn deserves another.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“This is a pretty flimflam.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source