John Lyly Quotes

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• Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

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  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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

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  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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• The night has a thousand eyes.

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  Eye, Sunset, Night

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• A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

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  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  1588 Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

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

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  Heart, Past, Mind

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• The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

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  Tails, Mouths, Honey

  John Lyly, George K. Hunter, David Bevington (1991). “Campaspe and Sappho and Phao: John Lyly”, p.285, 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

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

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Life Is

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

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  Loyalty, Adversity, Storm

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

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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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• The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.

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  Inward, Dangerous, Wounds

  Euphues

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• The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

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  Heart, Ambassadors, Tongue

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• Nothing so perilous as procrastination

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  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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• All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

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  Men, Mold, Old Man

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

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  Friendship, Friends, Fall

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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• Fish and guests in three days are stale.

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  Three, Modern Life, Guests

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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• It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

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  Ideas, Disposition, Altered

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• Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

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  Book, Purses, Study

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.146, Manchester University Press

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

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  Broken, Together, Stronger

  Euphues

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• To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

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  Wine, Taste, Enjoy

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.294, Manchester University 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.

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  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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• To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

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  Incidents, Live Well, Wells

  John Lyly (1964). “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues & His England”

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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.

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  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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• 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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