Thomas Middleton Quotes
- ’Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift. - View Quote Details on ’Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.
- How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer’s days! - View Quote Details on How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer’s days!
- Spick and span new. - View Quote Details on Spick and span new.
- Hold their noses to the grindstone. - View Quote Details on Hold their noses to the grindstone.
- He who loves the law dies either mad or poor. - View Quote Details on He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.
- From thousands of our undone widows
One may derive some wit. - View Quote Details on From thousands of our undone widows
One may derive some wit. - Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon. 15 - View Quote Details on Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to… - Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may. 16 - View Quote Details on Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle,… - A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long. - View Quote Details on A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long.
- Wilt make haste to give up thy verdict because thou wilt not lose thy dinner. - View Quote Details on Wilt make haste to give up thy verdict because thou…
- Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes. - View Quote Details on Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.
- Justice may wink a while, but see at last. - View Quote Details on Justice may wink a while, but see at last.
- The world’s a stage on which all parts are played. - View Quote Details on The world’s a stage on which all parts are played.
- This was a good week’s labour. - View Quote Details on This was a good week’s labour.
- There is no hate lost between us. - View Quote Details on There is no hate lost between us.
- That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice. - View Quote Details on That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice. - My nearest
And dearest enemy. - View Quote Details on My nearest
And dearest enemy. - Turn over a new leaf. - View Quote Details on Turn over a new leaf.
- I smell a rat. - View Quote Details on I smell a rat.
- On his last legs. - View Quote Details on On his last legs.
- As true as I live. - View Quote Details on As true as I live.
- How a good meaning
May be corrupted by a misconstruction. - View Quote Details on How a good meaning
May be corrupted by a misconstruction. - As the case stands. - View Quote Details on As the case stands.
- A flat case as plain as a pack-staff. - View Quote Details on A flat case as plain as a pack-staff.
- By many a happy accident. - View Quote Details on By many a happy accident.
- ’T is a stinger. - View Quote Details on ’T is a stinger.
About Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627 ) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He stands with William Shakespeare as one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in comedy and tragedy. Also a prolific writer of masques and pageants, he remains one of the most noteworthy and characteristic of Jacobean dramatists.
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