John Suckling quotes
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“Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.”
-- John SucklingSource : 1646 'Love's Offence'.
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“Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.”
-- John SucklingSource : c.1638 Sonnet no.2.
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“Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.”
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“Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!”
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“Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.”
-- John SucklingSource : 'A Poem with the Answer'
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“Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.”
-- John SucklingSource : Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.150
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“'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear...”
-- John SucklingSource : 1646 'Against Fruition'.
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“But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.”
-- John SucklingSource : Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.37
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“She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.”
-- John SucklingSource : Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.373
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“I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?”
-- John SucklingSource : Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.65
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“Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.”
-- John SucklingSource : Sir John Suckling (1836). “Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling”, p.274, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
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“Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.”
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“Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?”
-- John SucklingSource : 'Aglaura' (1637) act 4, sc. 1, song
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“A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.”
-- John Suckling
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