John Suckling quotes

" The prince of darkness is a gentleman. " # Gentlemen

" Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee, why so pale? " # Jokes and Jokers # Kindness # Death and Dying

" Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? " # Jokes and Jokers

" If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make. " # Beauty # Music # Life and Living

" 'Tis now since I sat down before That foolish fort, a heart, (Time strangely spent) a year, and more, And still I did my part: " # Love # Time and Time Management # Age and Aging

" Oh for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post Sent from the shades below! I strangely long to know Whether the nobler chaplets wear Those that their mistress' scorn did bear, Or those that were used kindly. " # Past # Love # Lovers

" Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But oh, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. " # Books - Reading # Fear # Courage

" Her lips were red, and one was thin; Compared with that was next her chin,— Some bee had stung it newly. " # Age and Aging

" 'T is expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. " # Expectation # Love # Friends and Friendship

" She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on. " # Wit