25 Quotes by Thomas Dekker

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thyfriends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it...deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,a cooling fan of feathers.

In this pittifull (or rather pittilesse) perplexitie stood London, forsaken like a Lover, forlorne like a widow, and disarmde of all comfort.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.