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Thomas Lodge
37 quotes
“The earth, late choked with showers, Is how arrayed in green; Her bosom springs with flowers, The air dissolves her teen.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1589 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scilla's Metamorphosis (1589), madrigal, l. 1
“Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasure, Youthful lordings, of delight; Whilst occasion gives you seizure, Feed your fancies and your sight: After death, when you are gone, Joy and pleasure is there none.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1591 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert the Devil (1591), p. 42
“As cool as a clock.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1592 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Euphues' Shadow (1592)
“Buy cheap, sell dear.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1595 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Fig for Momus (1595), epis. iv
“Yea, when the Grecian Calends come (quoth I).”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1595 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Fig for Momus (1595), epis. vii
“Words are like to arrows, which are easily shot out, but hardly got in again.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1596 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Devil Conjured (1596), p. 83
“A good man is never less alone than when alone, as Themistocles said.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1596 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Devil Conjured (1596)
“Least he longs that little seeth.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1600 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Damon's Pastoral, l. 36; in England's Helicon (1600)
“The covetous man is good to no man, and worst to himself.”
Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) first seen 1614 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1614), p. 443
“Who hath not heard that the lion is known by his claws?”
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“Your day owl...hath brought such a lot of wondering birds about your ears, as...will chatter you out of your ivy bush.”
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“Will you have all for your own tooth?”
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“As the cat watcheth the play of the mouse.”
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“Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet.”
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“Like to the clear in highest sphere Where all imperial glory shines, Of selfsame colour is her hair, Whether unfolded or in twines: Heigh, ho, fair Rosalynde!”
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“Her neck is like a stately tower, Where Love himself imprison'd lies.”
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“With orient pearl, with ruby red, With marble white, with sapphire blue, Her body every way is fed, Yet soft in touch, and sweet in view.”
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“First time shall stay his stayless race, And Winter bless his brows with corn, And snow bemoisten July’s face, And winter spring, and summer mourn, Before my pen by help of fame Cease to recite thy sacred name.”
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“I have a longing tooth...that makes me cry.”
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“Turn I my looks unto the skies, Love with his arrows wounds mine eyes; If so I gaze upon the ground, Love then in every flower is found. Search I the shade to fly my pain, He meets me in the shade again; Wend I to walk in secret grove, Even there I meet with sacred Love. If so I bain me in the spring, Even on the brink I hear him sing: If so I meditate alone, He will be partner of my moan. If so I mourn, he weeps with me, And where I am there will he be.”
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“There is no sting to the worm of conscience.”
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“Aliena...spied where the hare was by the hounds, and could see day at a little hole.”
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“Love lurks as soon about a sheepcote as a palace.”
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“Your nose bewrays what porridge you love.”
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“Well, sir, if your market may be made no where else, home again, for your mart is at the fairest.”
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“Aliena...said the wedding was not worth a pin, unless there were some cheer.”
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“Love guards the roses of thy lips And flies about them like a bee.”
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“Nothing liked, where nothing wanted.”
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“Not worth a horse of thine own this seven year.”
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“The smith and the devil hath a dry tooth in his head.”
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“I was in a brown study.”
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“Wherethrough justice is made a nose of wax warmed.”
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“Devils are not so black as they be painted, ... nor women so wayward as they seem.”
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“My shirt is near me, but my skin is nearest.”
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“He will not eat his dinner before he hath looked in his almanack, nor pare his nails while Monday, to be fortunate in his love.”
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“Giving me the fico with his thumb in his mouth.”
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“The smallest hair hath his shadow.”
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