29 Quotes by Thomas Campion

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

Beauty is not beauty without love.

Thou shalt prove That beauty is no beauty without love.

Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?

If all would lead their lives in love like me, Then bloody swords and armor should not be; No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move, Unless alarm came from the camp of love.