Top 15 John Suckling Quotes

I thought to undermine the heart
By whispering in the ear.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

Her face is like the milky way i' the sky,
A meeting of gentle lights without a name.

She's pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant, too, to think on.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee why so pale?

Our sins, like to our shadows,
When our day is in its glory, scarce appear:
Towards our evening how great and monstrous
They are!

Her lips were red, and one was thin
Compared to that was next her chin, (Some bee had stung it newly).

For streaks of red were mingled there,
Such as are on a Catherine pear (The side that's next the sun)

Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light.
But oh! she dances such a way—
No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight!

They who know all the wealth they have are poor;
He's only rich that cannot tell his store.

’Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.

Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice stole in and out,
As if they feared the light;
But oh, she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight.

No grape, that’s kindly ripe, could be
So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice.

Oh for some honest lover's ghost,
Some kind unbodied post
Sent from the shades below!
I strangely long to know
Whether the nobler chaplets wear
Those that their mistress' scorn did bear,
Or those that were used kindly.

'Tis now since I sat down before
That foolish fort, a heart,
(Time strangely spent) a year, and more,
And still I did my part: