Francis Beaumont
Francis Beaumont
Francis Beaumontwas a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
exercise men talk walk women
As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
forgiveness men silence
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
men thinking secret
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.
exercise men hours
As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
growing-up men wickedness
There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
sleep men death-and-dying
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
man scarce thou thy wilt
Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
behold change flesh
Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
against care disclose hearts shut theirs
Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
interest others people
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
born child merry sweet
Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / Merry Spring-time's harbinger.
body buried gentle lie
Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
deeds shall water
All your better deeds / Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
christmas gave jolly red thee
Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, / And they gave me this jolly red nose.