John Lyly Quotes

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• Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

  John Lyly

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

  John Lyly

  Ignorance, Empty Vessels, Sound

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.42, Manchester University Press

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• Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

  John Lyly

  Friendship, Destiny, Wrinkles

  John Lyly (1894). “Endymion the Man in the Moon: Played Before the Queen's Majesty at Greenwich on Candlemas Day, at Night, by the Children of Paul's”

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• When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

  John Lyly

  Loyalty, Adversity, Storm

  John Lyly, David Bevington (1997). “Endymion”, p.137, Manchester University Press

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• Fish and guests in three days are stale.

  John Lyly

  Three, Modern Life, Guests

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Life Is

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• It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

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  Ignorance, Bird, Foxes

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.242, Manchester University Press

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• As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.

  John Lyly

  Hate, Wine, Vinegar

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• Nothing so perilous as procrastination

  John Lyly

  Procrastination

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.58, Manchester University Press

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• The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

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  Envy, Envious, Harm

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.120, Manchester University Press

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• I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.

  John Lyly

  Understanding

  John Lyly (1975). “Mother Bombie”

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• The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

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  Blunt, Finest, Made

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.47

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• Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

  John Lyly

  Heart, Past, Mind

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• It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

  John Lyly

  Horse, Eye, Men

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.65, Psychology Press

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• [Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Bait, Poison

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.49, Manchester University Press

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• Love knoweth no laws.

  John Lyly

  Love, Law

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.79, Manchester University Press

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• Children and fooles speake true.

  John Lyly

  Children, Truth

  John Lyly, Frederick William Fairholt, Lillie Lyly (1858). “The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.): John Lilly and his works. Endimion. Campaspe. Sapho and Phao. Gallathea. Notes”, p.55

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• As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

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  Law, Conditions

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.72, Manchester University Press

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• The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

  John Lyly

  Broken, Together, Stronger

  Euphues

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• If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

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  Young, Ifs, Be Young

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• The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

  John Lyly

  Rain, Marble, Hard

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.81

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• If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

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  Love Is, Lovers, Should

  1588 Gallathea, act 3, sc.1.

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• Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

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  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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• Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

  John Lyly

  Heart, Wine, Men

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.115, Manchester University Press

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• Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

  John Lyly

  Friendship, Friends, Fall

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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