Thomas Dekker Quotes

• Thou’rt one of those That thinks each woman thy fond flexible whore.

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• I have the head now of myself, and am man enough for a woman.

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• I have no humour to marry; I love to lie o’ both sides of the bed myself; and again, o’ th’other side.

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• ’Tis the maddest fantasticalest girl. I never knew so much flesh and so much nimbleness put together.

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• This wench we speak of strays so from her kind, Nature repents she made her; ’tis a mermaid Has tolled my son to shipwreck.

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• That great fishpond.

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• Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise; Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby, Rock them, rock them, lullaby.

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• Dost thou not know that love respects no blood, Cares not for difference of birth or state?

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• Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain.

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• What a heaven is love! O what a hell!

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• We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.

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• This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

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  This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.

   

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• Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

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• Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

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• Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

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• Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

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• A mask of gold hides all deformities.

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• Were there no women, men might live like gods.

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• Honest labor bears a lovely face.

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Thomas Dekker (22)

Birth:	1572
Death:	25th August, 1632
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Pamphleteer, Dramatist, Writer

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