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John Suckling
25 quotes
“Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? ... Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move: This cannot take her. If of herself she cannot love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her!”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our sins, like to our shadows, When our day is in its glory, scarce appear: Towards our evening how great and monstrous They are!”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But, as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own; So in our very judgments.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Sir John Suckling
“The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman: Mahu, Mahu is his name.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. ... As much to the lively grey; 'Tis as good i' th' night as day.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just so, i' th' nick! i' th' very nick of time!”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“High characters (cries one); and he would see Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor ne'er will be.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She's pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Her face is like the Milky Way i' the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Sir John Suckling
“Love is the fart Of every heart; It pains a man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend when 'tis let loose.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis now, since I sat down before That foolish fort, a heart, (Time strangely spent), a year and more, And still I did my part.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thought to undermine the heart By whispering in the ear.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sure Beauty's empires, like to greater states, Have certain periods set, and hidden fates.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O! for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post Sent from the shades below! I strangely long to know, Whether the nobler chaplets wear, Those that their mistress' scorn did bear, Or those that were us'd kindly.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women enjoy'd (whate'er before th' have been) Are like romances read, or sights once seen: Fruition's dull, and spoils the play much more Than if one read or knew the plot before. 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They who know all the wealth they have, are poor; He's only rich that cannot tell his store.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The maid—and thereby hangs a tale; For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape, that’s kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: But O, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison (Who sees them is undone); For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Catherine pear (The side that's next the sun).”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Her lips were red; and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly).”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Out upon it! I have lov'd Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.Time shall moult away his wings, Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Had it any been but she, And that very face, There had been at least ere this A dozen dozen in her place.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why then shouldst thou have mine?”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But love is such a mystery, I cannot find it out; For when I think I'm best resolv'd, I then am most in doubt.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source