John Suckling Quotes

• Love is the fart
  Of every heart
  It pains the man when 'tis kept close,
  And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.

  John Suckling

  Pain, Heart, Love Is

  1646 'Love's Offence'.

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• Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.

  John Suckling

  Food, Delight, Meat

  c.1638 Sonnet no.2.

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• She is pretty to walk with,
  And witty to talk with,
  And pleasant, too, to think on.

  John Suckling

  Relationship, Witty, Thinking

  Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.373

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• Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

  John Suckling

  Paint, Ugliness

  Sir John Suckling (1836). “Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling”, p.263, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman

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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!

  John Suckling

  Guilt, Shadow, Evening

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• Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

  John Suckling

  Hope, Blessing, Expectations

  Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.22

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• Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

  John Suckling

  Opportunity, Degrees, Heat

  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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• Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.

  John Suckling

  Grace, Deities, Arise

  Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.96

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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 Suckling

  Dance, Easter, Sight

  Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.37

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• 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

  John Suckling

  Blessing, Expectations, Anticipation

  1646 'Against Fruition'.

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• Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

  John Suckling

  Happiness, Joy, Firsts

  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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• A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

  John Suckling

  Mediocrity, Quiet, Stills

  Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.128

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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 Suckling

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  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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• 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 Suckling

  Life, Moving, Lovers

  'Aglaura' (1637) act 4, sc. 1, song

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• If I a fancy take
  To black and blue,
  That fancy doth it beauty make.

  John Suckling

  Beauty, Blue, Black

  Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.17

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• Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

  John Suckling

  Sorrow, Weaving, Spinning

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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

  Eye, Night, Glasses

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• But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

  John Suckling

  Men, Wind, Watches

  Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling, William Carew Hazlitt (1874). “The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling”, p.66

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• Tis love in love that makes the sport.

  John Suckling

  Sports

  c.1638 Sonnet no.2.

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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 Suckling

  Weather, Together, Three

  'A Poem with the Answer'

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