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  • As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

    Exercise   Men   Hours  
    Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Suzanne Gossett (2009). “Philaster”, p.160, A&C Black
  • Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

    Heart   Care   Shut Up  
  • Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.

    Noses   Red   Ginger  
  • Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

    Life   March   Graves  
    "The Humorous Lieutenant". Play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Act III, scene 5, line 76, 1647.
  • Bad's the best of us.

  • Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

    Wisdom   Lying   Honor  
  • The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

    Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479
  • Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

    Wings   Bird   Heaven  
  • The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

    Desire   Want   Littles  
  • Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

  • Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

    Hurt   Betrayal   Love Is  
    The Maid's Tragedy act 5 (written 1610 - 1611). Coauthored with John Fletcher.
  • You are no better than you should be.

    Francis Beaumont (1718). “The Coxcomb. A Comedy, Etc”, p.39
  • My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!

    Francis Beaumont (1750). “The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.435
  • Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

    Love   Dog   Literature  
    Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1679). “The works of Beaumont & Fletcher: the text formed from a new collation of the early editions”, p.453
  • There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

    Beauty   Sweet   Mind  
    Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1855). “Beaumont and Fletcher: or, The finest scenes, lyrics, and other beauties of those two poets, now first selected from the whole of their works, to the exclusion of whatever is morally objectionable: with opinions of distinguished critics, notes explanatory and otherwise, and a general introductory preface”, p.207
  • The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

    Desire   Too Much   Way  
  • But what is past my help is past my care.

    Past   Care   Helping  
    Francis Beaumont (1750). “The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.109
  • All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

    Men   Thinking   Secret  
  • Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

  • If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  • Kiss till the cow comes home.

    Home   Kissing   Cows  
    Francis Beaumont (1758). “The scornful lady, a comedy”, p.21
  • Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

    Running   Envy   Fruit  
  • As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

    Heaven   Hell  
    Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”, p.218
  • There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

    Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”
  • It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken

    Heart   Broken  
  • It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  • Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

    Sweet   Children   Spring  
    Francis Beaumont (1887). “The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: Selected”
  • Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

    Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.336
  • Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

    Death   Sleep   Men  
    Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Humorous lieutenant. Faithfl shepherdess. Mad lover. Loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife”, p.60
  • Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

    Running   Soul   Doubt  
    Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.433
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