52 Quotes by Francis Beaumont

There’s nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn’d; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!

It is a word that’s quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune’s false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul’s most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

Bad’s the best of us.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.