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John Lyly
41 quotes
“O! for a bowl of fat Canary, Rich Palermo, sparkling Sherry.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“None is happy but a glutton.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For wenches, wine, and lusty cheer, Jove would leap down to surfeit here.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“: Were women never to fair, men would be false. : Were women never so false, men would be fond.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses—Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes— She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What bird so sings, yet so does wail? Oh, 'tis the ravished nightingale. "Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu," she cries, And still her woes at midnight rise.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“I cast before the Moone.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“He reckoneth without his Hostesse. Love knoweth no lawes.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“That honourable estate of Matrimony, which was sanctified in Paradise, allowed of the Patriarches, hallowed of the olde Prophets, and commended of al persons.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Did not Jupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alcmæna; into the form of a swan to enjoy Leda; into a Bull to beguile Io; into a showre of gold to win Danae?”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Lette me stande to the maine chance.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it not true which Seneca reporteth, that as too much bending breaketh the bowe, so too much remission spoyleth the minde?”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a world to see.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: P. 229. Compare: "To rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb", Breton, Court and Country, 1618 (reprint, page 182); "Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed", James Hurdis, The Village Curate.
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“A comely olde man as busie as a bee.”
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Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.”
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Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.”
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Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde.”
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Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Fishe and gesse in three dayes are stale.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Fish and guests in three days are stale.”
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“There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Euphues and His Euphœbus, p. 153, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "There is no fire without some smoke", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. v
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“A clere conscience is a sure carde.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) first seen 1550 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Euphues, p. 207, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "This is a sure card", Thersytes, c. 1550
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“As lyke as one pease is to another.”
John Lyly (1554–1606) said by 1606 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Euphues, p. 215, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Also quoted by: Richard Hooker
“Rocks, shelves, and sands and seas, farewell. Fie! Who would dwell In such a hell As is a ship, which drunk does reel, Taking salt healths from deck to keel?”
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“Is any cozened of a tear Which as a pearl disdain does wear? Here stands the thief; let her come Hither, and lay on him her doom.”
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“My Daphne's hair is twisted gold, Bright stars a-piece her eyes do hold, My Daphne's brow enthrones the graces, My Daphne's beauty stains all faces; On Daphne's cheek grow rose and cherry, On Daphne's lip a sweeter berry.”
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“Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed, Though now she's turned into a reed.”
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“Cross-gartered swains, and dairy girls, With faces smug, and round as pearls, When Pan's shrill pipe begins to play, With dancing wear out night and day.”
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“Io, paeans let us sing, To physic's and to poesy's king”
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“O Cupid! Monarch over Kings! Wherefore hast thou feet and wings? Is it to show how swift thou art, When thou would'st wound a tender heart? Thy wings being clipped, and feet held still, Thy bow so many would not kill. It is all one in Venus' wanton school Who highest sits, the wise man or the fool! Fools in love’s college Have far more knowledge To read a woman over, Than a neat prating lover. Nay, 'tis confessed That fools please women best!”
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“My shag-hair Cyclops, come, let's ply Our Lemnian hammers lustily. By my wife's sparrows, I swear these arrows Shall singing fly Through many a wanton's eye.These headed are with golden blisses, These silver ones feathered with kisses, But this of lead Strikes a clown dead, When in a dance He falls in a trance, To see his black-brow lass not buss him, And then whines out for death t'untruss him. So, so: our work being done, let's play: Holiday! boys, cry holiday!”
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