Quotes by
John Lyly |
1554-1606 , English writer
He was a writer, poet, playwright, and politician.He wrote his famous book Euphues: The Anatomy of wit, while he was studying M.A. It made him famous. Lyly’s mannered literary style in this book developed in to a literary style called Euphuism. Later then became a dramatist and wrote eight plays.
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Quotations
| • | All is fair in love and war. 2 |
| • | It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man. 2 |
| • | As the best wine do make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns in to the deadliest hate. 1 |
| • | The tongue, the ambassador of the heart. 1 |
| • | It is far more seemly to have your Study full of Books, than your Purse full of money. |
| • | In misery it is great comfort to have a companion. |
| • | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
| • | The night has a thousand eyes. |
| • | Where a mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. |
| • | The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous. |
| • | He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose. |
| • | Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest. |
| • | Love knoweth no laws. |
