Thomas Flatman quotes

“Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.”
-- Thomas Flatman

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“Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.”
-- Thomas Flatman

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“How happy a thing were a wedding, And a bedding, If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day”
-- Thomas Flatman

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“My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.”

“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.”

“For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain”

Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

“So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.”

Source : Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

“If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.”

“The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.”

“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”

“Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.”

“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”

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