John Suckling Quotes

#1. A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass ... As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: ... She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

John Suckling

#2. But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

John Suckling

#3. Why so pale and wan, fond lover,
Prithee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?

John Suckling

#4. 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear ...

John Suckling

#5. For the people are naturally not valiant , and not much cavalier .

John Suckling

#6. Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.

John Suckling

#7. Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

John Suckling

#8. She is pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant, too, to think on.

John Suckling

#9. But oh, she dances in such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight.

John Suckling

#10. I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

John Suckling

#11. Love is the fart
Of every heart
It pains the man when 'tis kept close,
And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.

John Suckling

#12. If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.

John Suckling

#13. Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

John Suckling

#14. Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

John Suckling

#15. Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

John Suckling

#16. Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

John Suckling

#17. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

John Suckling

#18. Tis love in love that makes the sport.

John Suckling

#19. Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.

John Suckling

#20. Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

John Suckling

#21. Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

John Suckling