Beaumont And Fletcher

Dates not recorded

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

▷ Play this voice Search these words ↗Place in time ↗truth death life love friendship time happiness character

Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

↗

02In print by 1901 AD

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.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

↗

03In print by 1901 AD

It shewed discretion, the best part of valor.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

↗

04In print by 1901 AD

We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well: and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him?

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

↗

05In print by 1901 AD

We all are soldiers, and all venture lives; And where there is no difference in men's worth, Titles are jests.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

↗

06In print by 1901 AD

Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd, And then they shine.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

↗

07Undated

Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and an upright man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

↗