The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Thomas Heywood

5 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.— filed under Familiarity
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain. J. C. AND A. W. HARE-Guesses at Truth. The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.— filed under Observation
Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.— filed under Fame
I askt the seas and all the deeps below My God to know, I askt the reptiles, and whatever is In the abyss; Even from the shrimps to the leviathan Enquiry ran; But in those deserts that no line can sound The God I sought for was not to be found.— filed under God
Psalm XXXVI. Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.— filed under Proverbs
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