Thomas Heywood Quotes

Thomas Heywood paints vivid, theatrical musings on life, war and ancient heroes.

11 quotes

1. The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

2. Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.

3. I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.

4. Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. 2

5. Pack, clouds, away! and welcome, day! With night we banish sorrow. Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft To give my Love good-morrow! Wings from the wind to please her mind, Notes from the lark I'll borrow: Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing!

6. Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

7. Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.

8. Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

9. That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

10. Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

11. “Oh God, Oh God! that it were possible To undo things done; to call back yesterday! That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass, To untell days, and to redeem these hours.”