Francis Beaumont Quotes

• The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

  Francis Beaumont

  Desire, Too Much, Way

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• You are no better than you should be.

  Francis Beaumont

  Literature, Should, Garters

  Francis Beaumont (1718). “The Coxcomb. A Comedy, Etc”, p.39

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• 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

  Running, Envy, Fruit

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• Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

  Francis Beaumont

  Heart, Care, Shut Up

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• 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

  Wings, Bird, Heaven

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• Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

  Francis Beaumont

  Life, March, Graves

  "The Humorous Lieutenant". Play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Act III, scene 5, line 76, 1647.

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• Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

  Francis Beaumont

  Hurt, Betrayal, Love Is

  The Maid's Tragedy act 5 (written 1610 - 1611). Coauthored with John Fletcher.

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• Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

  Francis Beaumont

  Death, Sleep, Men

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Humorous lieutenant. Faithfl shepherdess. Mad lover. Loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife”, p.60

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• 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

  Desire, Want, Littles

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• The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

  Francis Beaumont

  Heaven, Headstone, Mercy

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479

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• It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  Francis Beaumont

  Friendship, Silence, Overcoming

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• As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

  Francis Beaumont

  Exercise, Men, Hours

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Suzanne Gossett (2009). “Philaster”, p.160, A&C Black

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• Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

  Francis Beaumont

  Sweet, Lovely, Literature

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.336

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Secret

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• As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

  Francis Beaumont

  Heaven, Hell

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”, p.218

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• It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken

  Francis Beaumont

  Heart, Broken

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• There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

  Francis Beaumont

  Growing Up, Men, Degrees

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”

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• Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

  Francis Beaumont

  Love, Dog, Literature

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1679). “The works of Beaumont & Fletcher: the text formed from a new collation of the early editions”, p.453

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• Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

  Francis Beaumont

  Grace, Desolation, Robes

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• 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

  Art, Forgive Me, Childhood

  Francis Beaumont (1750). “The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.435

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• Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

  Francis Beaumont

  Path, Companionship, Pity

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• Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
  And sweet thyme true,
  Primrose, first born child of Ver,
  Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

  Francis Beaumont

  Sweet, Children, Spring

  Francis Beaumont (1887). “The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: Selected”

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• Bad's the best of us.

  Francis Beaumont

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• Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

  Francis Beaumont

  Wisdom, Lying, Honor

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• There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

  Francis Beaumont

  Beauty, Sweet, Mind

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1855). “Beaumont and Fletcher: or, The finest scenes, lyrics, and other beauties of those two poets, now first selected from the whole of their works, to the exclusion of whatever is morally objectionable: with opinions of distinguished critics, notes explanatory and otherwise, and a general introductory preface”, p.207

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