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Quotes by S. Thos. Middleton
I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Vanini. Love is all in fire, and yet is ever freezing; Love is much in winning, yet is more in leesing: Love is ever sick, and yet is never dying; Love is ever true, and yet is ever lying; Love does doat in liking, and is mad in loathing; Love indeed is anything, yet indeed is nothing.— filed under Love
By many a happy accident.— filed under Accident
That disease Of which all old men sicken, avarice.— filed under Babyhood
Introduction. My nearest And dearest enemy.— filed under Bias
Let the air strike our tune, Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.— filed under Monuments
P. 216. Words, however, are things; and the man who accords To his language the license to outrage his soul, Is controll'd by the words he disdains to control. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. I. Canto II. St. VI. How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!— filed under Words
Ground not upon dreams, you know they are ever contrary.— filed under Dreams
A little too wise they say do ne'er live long. ee.— filed under Proverbs
As the case stands.— filed under Proverbs
Have you summoned your wits from wool gathering? bb.— filed under Proverbs
Hold their noses to the grindstone. cc.— filed under Proverbs
On his last legs. hh.— filed under Proverbs
There's no hate lost between us. jj.— filed under Proverbs
Dialogue I. 'Tis a stinger.— filed under Borbonius
In the election of a wife, as in A project of war, to err but once is To be undone forever.— filed under Wife
The world's a stage on which all parts are played.— filed under Work
Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes. ff.— filed under Proverbs