1.
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
2.
The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.
Francis Beaumont
3.
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Francis Beaumont
4.
Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Spring-time's harbinger.
Francis Beaumont
5.
You are no better than you should be.
Francis Beaumont
6.
Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.
Francis Beaumont
7.
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
Francis Beaumont
8.
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.
Francis Beaumont
9.
Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.
Francis Beaumont
10.
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
11.
Our lives are but our marches to the grave.
Francis Beaumont
12.
Kiss till the cow comes home.
Francis Beaumont
13.
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Francis Beaumont
14.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Francis Beaumont
15.
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
16.
There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
Francis Beaumont
17.
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
Francis Beaumont
18.
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.
Francis Beaumont
19.
As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
Francis Beaumont
20.
As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
Francis Beaumont
21.
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Francis Beaumont
22.
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
Francis Beaumont
23.
It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken
Francis Beaumont
24.
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
25.
But what is past my help is past my care.
Francis Beaumont
26.
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.
Francis Beaumont
27.
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.
Francis Beaumont
28.
Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
Francis Beaumont
29.
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.
Francis Beaumont
30.
Bad's the best of us.
Francis Beaumont
