Top 15 John Fletcher Quotes

Great Actions speak Great Minds.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Our acts our Angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.

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

This is a gimcrack
That can get nothing but new fashions on you.

That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels.

There is no jesting with edge tools.

This is a pretty flimflam.

One good turn deserves another.

First come, first served.

The foot in the grave.

Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.

Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears,
On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears!
But first set my poor heart free,
Bound in those icy chains by thee.

Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we.
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the gallows tree.