John Lyly
John Lyly
John Lylywas an English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright, and politician, best known for his books Euphues: The Anatomy of Witand Euphues and His England. Lyly's mannered literary style, originating in his first books, is known as euphuism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 April 1908
best deadliest deepest doth english-writer love sharpest
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
mean love-is ends
The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
love law
Love knoweth no laws.
suffering quality his-love
An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.
love-is lovers should
If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
love mother team
Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses; Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip,--the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how) With these, the crystal on his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! hath she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?
might shall
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
cards played
Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.
gates lark none till waking
None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not waking till she sings.
brown seems
It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
men bees
A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
fishing caught fishes
All fish are not caught with flies
kindness bees kindred
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
heaven matrimony made
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.