JOHN LYLY QUOTES

English writer (1553-1606)

It is far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Tags: books


If thou love thine equal, it is no conquest; if thy superior, thou shalt be envied; if thine inferior, laughed at. If one that is beautiful, her colour will change before thou get thy desire; if one that is wise, she will overreach thee so far that thou shalt never touch her; if virtuous, she will eschew such fond affection; if deformed, she is not worthy of any affection; if she be rich, she needeth thee not; if poor, thou needest not her. If old, why shouldst thou love her; if young, why should she love thee?

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England


Love knoweth no laws.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Tags: love


A merry companion is as good as a wagon,
For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.

JOHN LYLY

The Woman in the Moon


Children and fools speak true.

JOHN LYLY

Endymion

Tags: truth


A bargain is a bargain.

JOHN LYLY

Arden of Feversham


To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Tags: reason


All fish are not caught with flies.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Tags: fishing


It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit


Many strokes overthrow the tallest oak.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit


There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and his Euphoebus


Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face,
but addeth fresh colours to a fast friend,
which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery,
nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish.

JOHN LYLY

Endymion, the Man in the Moon

Tags: time


The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit


Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

JOHN LYLY

Midas

Tags: lips


Marriages are made in heaven though consummated on Earth.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and his England

Tags: marriage


A penny for your thought.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues

Tags: thought


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

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Tags: hate


A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes, and hearts, and ears; bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, killed by dissembling, buried by ingratitude; and this is love.

JOHN LYLY

Gallathea and Midas


All is fair in love and war.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Tags: war


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

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and His England