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Thomas Middleton
35 quotes
“Hold their noses to the grindstone.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1601 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blurt, Master-Constable (c.1601), Act iii. Sc. 3. Attributed to Middleton, but possibly written or edited by Thomas Dekker.. Compare: "Hold their noses to grinstone", John Heywood, Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“I smell a rat.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1601 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blurt, Master-Constable (c. 1601), Act iii. Sc. 3. Compare: "I smell a rat", Ben Jonson, Tale of a Tub, act iv. Sc. 3; Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 281; "I begin to smell a rat", Miguel de Cervantes, D…
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“’Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1602 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michaelmas Term (1602), Act iv. Sc. 1. Compare: "It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize", Alexander Pope, The Iliad, book xxiii. line 383.
“In spite of my teeth.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1605 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Trick to catch the Old One (1605), act i, sc. 2.
“From thousands of our undone widows One may derive some wit.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1605 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Trick to catch the Old One (1605), Act i. Sc. 2. Compare: "Some undone widow sits upon mine arm", Philip Massinger, A New Way to pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“Wilt make haste to give up thy verdict because thou wilt not lose thy dinner.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1605 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Trick to catch the Old One (1605).
“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1605 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Mad World, my Masters (1605), Compare: "From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, 1 he is all mirth", William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act iii. Sc. 2.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon, John Fletcher
“That disease Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1611 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Roaring Girl (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1611), Act i. Sc. 1. Compare: "So for a good old gentlemanly vice,/I think I must take up with avarice", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto i. stanza 216.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1611 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Roaring Girl (co-written with Thomas Dekker, 1611), Act i. Sc. 1.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer’s days!”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1611 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 1.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“By many a happy accident.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1611 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 2. Compare: "A happy accident", Madame de Staël, L'Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes, Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1614 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: More Dissemblers besides Women (1614), Act i. Sc. 4.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“’T is a stinger.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1614 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: More Dissemblers besides Women (1614), Act iii. Sc. 2. Compare: "He ’as had a stinger", Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit without Money, act iv. sc. 1.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“There is no hate lost between us.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1616 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Witch (1616), Act iv. Sc. 3. Compare: "There is no love lost between us", Cervantes, Don Quixote, book iv. chap. xxiii.; Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act iv.; David Garrick, Correspondence, 1759; …
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“Let the air strike our tune, Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1616 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Witch (1616), Act v. Sc. 2. "I ’ll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round", Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act iv. Sc. 1.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1616 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Witch (1616), Act v. Sc. 2. Compare: Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. According to Steevens, "the song was, in all probability, a traditional one"; Collier says, "Doubtless it does not belong to Middleton more than to Shakes…
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“All is not gold that glisteneth.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1616 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Fair Quarrel (1616), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: Alain de Lille
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“As the case stands.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1618 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Law (1618-19), Act ii. Sc. 1. Co-written with William Rowley and perhaps a third collaborator, who may have been Philip Massinger or Thomas Heywood. Compare: "As the case stands", Mathew Henry, Commentaries, Psa…
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“On his last legs.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1618 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Law (1618-19), Act v. Sc. 1.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“How a good meaning May be corrupted by a misconstruction.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1618 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Law (1618-19).
“Justice may wink a while, but see at last.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough (1621).
“Turn over a new leaf.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1604 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act ii. Sc. 1. Compare: "Turn over a new leaf", Thomas Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act iii. Sc. 3.
Also quoted by: Thomas Dekker (writer), Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon
“My nearest And dearest enemy.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven, Or ever I had seen that day", Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“This was a good week’s labour.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act v. Sc. 3.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“The world's a stage on which all parts are played.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1612 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Game of Chess (1624), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.; "The world ’s a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and…
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“Like pearl Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn Upon the bashful rose.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) first seen 1624 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Game of Chess (1624).
“Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“Spick and span new.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“A flat case as plain as a pack-staff.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Act v. Sc. 3. Compare: "Plain as a pike-staff", Terence in English (1641); Buckingham, Speech in the House of Lords, 1675; Gil Blas (Smollett’s translation), book xii. chap. viii. John Byrom, Epistle to a Friend.
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“As true as I live.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“The better day, the better deed.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The worst comes to the worst.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon