Francis Beaumont Quotes


"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Death, Love, Fear, Man, Sleep)

"You are no better than you should be."
- Francis Beaumont
"There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Man, Wickedness)

"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Desire, Gain)

"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Love, Will)

"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Melancholy, Nothing)

"Kiss till the cow comes home."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Home, Kiss)

"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: People, Blind, Interest, Quick)

"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
(Related: Cunning, Envy)

"But what is past my help is past my care."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Care, Help, Past)

"Bad's the best of us."
- Francis Beaumont
"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Argument, Injury, Silence)