Francis Beaumont quotes

Francis Beaumont was an English playwright renowned for his collaborations with John Fletcher. His works played a significant role in shaping Jacobean drama and are celebrated for their wit and lively dialogue. He is remembered as one of the leading dramatists of the English Renaissance. Here are 25 of his quotes:

Nose, nose, jolly red nose, And who gave thee this jolly red nose . . . Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, And they gave me this jolly red nose. (Francis Beaumont)

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Francis Beaumont

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.

Francis Beaumont

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

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Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Francis Beaumont

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Francis Beaumont

You are no better than you should be.

Francis Beaumont

Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us.

Francis Beaumont

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Francis Beaumont

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont

Kiss till the cow comes home. (Francis Beaumont)

But what is past my help is past my care.

Francis Beaumont

Plot me no plots.

Francis Beaumont

She's private to herself and best of knowledge Whom she'll make so happy as to sigh for.

Francis Beaumont

What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.

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Mortality, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones: Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands.

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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

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Bad's the best of us.

Francis Beaumont

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

Francis Beaumont

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Francis Beaumont

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. (Francis Beaumont)

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

Francis Beaumont

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Francis Beaumont

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

Francis Beaumont

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

Francis Beaumont

Francis Beaumont

Occupation: English Playwright
Born: 1584
Died: March 6, 1616
Quotes count: 25
Wikipedia: Francis Beaumont

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