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Quotes from John Suckling

But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.
~ John Suckling
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
~ John Suckling
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
~ John Suckling
She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.
~ John Suckling
Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.
~ John Suckling
Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
~ John Suckling
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.
~ John Suckling
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.
~ John Suckling
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
~ John Suckling
'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetiteMakes eating a delight.
~ John Suckling
Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move,This cannot take her.If of herself she will not love,Nothing can make her.The devil take her!
~ John Suckling
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?Prithee, why so pale?Will, when looking well can't move her,Looking ill prevail?
~ John Suckling
Out upon it, I have lovedThree whole days together;And am like to love three more,If it prove fair weather.
~ John Suckling
High characters (cries one), and he would seeThings that ne'er were, nor are, nor ne'er will be.
~ John Suckling
Out upon it, I have lov'd Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.
~ John Suckling
I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
~ John Suckling
Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.
~ John Suckling
I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
~ John Suckling
Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.
~ John Suckling
Tis love in love that makes the sport.
~ John Suckling
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
~ John Suckling
Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
~ John Suckling