John Fletcher quotes - page 2

John Fletcher was an English playwright who became a leading dramatist during the early 17th century. His collaborations with Francis Beaumont produced some of the most popular plays of the Jacobean era. He greatly influenced English Renaissance drama and was a successor to William Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre. Here are 60 of his quotes:

Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep.

John Fletcher

Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

John Fletcher

Let them learn first to show pity at home.

John Fletcher

Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.

John Fletcher

That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels.

John Fletcher

One good turn deserves another.

John Fletcher

And he that will to bed go sober Falls with the leaf in October.

John Fletcher

As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

John Fletcher

What mare's nest hast thou found?

John Fletcher

All things that are Made for our general uses are at war,- Even we among ourselves.

John Fletcher

Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.

John Fletcher

Something given that way.

John Fletcher

The foot in the grave.

John Fletcher

Sing a song of sixpence.

John Fletcher

First come, first served.

John Fletcher

Let the world slide.

John Fletcher

Vow me no vows.

John Fletcher

We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him?

John Fletcher

Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd, And then they shine.

John Fletcher

Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves.

John Fletcher

There is no jesting with edge tools.

John Fletcher

Deeds, not words.

John Fletcher