Quotes from John Lyly

Your eyes are so sharp that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind.

It is a world to see.

How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,The morn not waking till she sings.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Let me stand to the main chance.

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

It is far more seemly to have thy Studie full of Bookes, than thy Purse full of money.

The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

Is it not far better to abhor sins by the remembrance of others' faults, than by repentance of thine own follies?

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.

Love knoweth no laws.

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.