Thomas Campion Quotes

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

Thomas Campion

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

Thomas Campion

#3. As your lover describes you, so you are.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.

Javier Bardem

#5. Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Thomas Campion

#6. Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Thomas Campion

#7. Beauty is not beauty without love.

Thomas Campion

#8. For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.

Doreen Valiente

#9. 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.

Thomas Campion

#10. 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.

Thomas Campion

#11. From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

Thomas Campion

#12. There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

Thomas Campion

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

Thomas Campion

#14. And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty.

Kim Harrison

#15. Just to be clear I don't want to get out without a broken heart. I indend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand seperate heavens for all of my flying parts.

Andrea Gibson

#16. 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.

Thomas Campion

#17. I ran out of strong.

Ron Hall

#18. Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

Leona Lewis

#19. I had a dreary, depressed feeling so deep in my soul that I was almost ready to believe I had one.

Victor Pelevin

#20. Thou shalt prove
That beauty is no beauty without love.

Thomas Campion

#21. Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

Ani DiFranco

#22. A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

Thomas Campion

#23. Too much study wears the body. BUT the truth refreshes the soul, sustains the spirit for a beautiful body.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

Thomas Campion

#25. Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

Thomas Campion

#26. Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

Thomas Campion

#27. Fortune, honour, beauty, youth,
Are but blossoms dying;
Wanton pleasures, doting love,
Are but shadows flying.

Thomas Campion

#28. You didn't break me. You can't break something that was already broken.

E.K. Blair

#29. Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine ... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

Thomas Campion

#30. Secret fates
Guide our states
Both in mirth and mourning.

Thomas Campion