Half Quotes by John Suckling

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

— John Suckling

Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

— John Suckling

A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis…

— John Suckling

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

— John Suckling

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…

— John Suckling

Tis love in love that makes the sport.

— John Suckling

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

— John Suckling

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

— John Suckling

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

— John Suckling

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

— John Suckling

“I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou…

— John Suckling

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

— John Suckling