English writer (1553-1606)
It is far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
If thou love thine equal, it is no conquest; if thy superior, thou shalt be envied; if thine inferior, laughed at. If one that is beautiful, her colour will change before thou get thy desire; if one that is wise, she will overreach thee so far that thou shalt never touch her; if virtuous, she will eschew such fond affection; if deformed, she is not worthy of any affection; if she be rich, she needeth thee not; if poor, thou needest not her. If old, why shouldst thou love her; if young, why should she love thee?
JOHN LYLY
Euphues and His England
Love knoweth no laws.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
Children and fools speak true.
JOHN LYLY
Endymion
A merry companion is as good as a wagon,
For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
JOHN LYLY
The Woman in the Moon
A bargain is a bargain.
JOHN LYLY
Arden of Feversham
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
All fish are not caught with flies.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oak.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues and his Euphoebus
A penny for your thought.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
JOHN LYLY
Midas
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face,
but addeth fresh colours to a fast friend,
which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery,
nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish.
JOHN LYLY
Endymion, the Man in the Moon
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes, and hearts, and ears; bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude; and this is love.
JOHN LYLY
Gallathea and Midas
Marriages are made in heaven though consummated on Earth.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues and his England
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
All is fair in love and war.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues and His England