Thomas Kyd Quotes

• I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

  Thomas Kyd

  Trust Myself, My Friends

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 3, sc.2.

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• Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

  Thomas Kyd

  Winning, Force

  Thomas Kyd “The Spanish Tragedy”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Evil news fly faster still than good.

  Thomas Kyd

  Evil, News, Faster

  Thomas Kyd, David Bevington (1996). “The Spanish Tragedy”, p.33, Manchester University Press

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• Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

  Thomas Kyd

  Violence

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

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• As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

  Thomas Kyd

  Mad, Brave, Wonder

  'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 7, The Fourth Addition (1602 ed.) l. 164

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• In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

  Thomas Kyd

  Time, Pain, Fall

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

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• Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

  Thomas Kyd

  Men, Toil, Remedy

  'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 6, l. 1

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• Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

  Thomas Kyd

  Eye, Tears, World

  'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;
  To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.
  For here though death doth end their misery,
  I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

  Thomas Kyd

  Tragedy, Haste, Ease

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