Quotes by Thomas Middleton

“All is not gold that glisteneth”

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but theres a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

Let me feel how thy pulses beat.

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

Lussurioso: Welcome, be not far off, we must be better acquainted. Push, be bold with us, thy hand!Vindice: With all my heart, ifaith. How dost, sweet musk-cat? When shall we lie together?Lussurioso: (aside) Wondrous knave!Gather him into boldness? Sfoot, the slavesAlready as familiar as an ague,And shakes me at his pleasure! -- Friend, I canForget myself in private, but elsewhere,I pray do you remember be.Vindice: Oh, very well, sir.I conster myself saucy.Lussurioso: What hast been? What profession?Vindice: A bone-setter.Lussurioso: A bone-setter!Vindice: A bawd, my lord, one that sets bones together.Lussurioso: (aside) Notable bluntness!

I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her: No matter, if but to vex her, Ill haunt her still; Though I get nothing else, Ill have my will.

Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgements,And should give certain judgement what they see;But they are rash sometimes, and tell us wondersOf common things, which when our judgments find,They can then check the eyes, and call them blind.

She that in life and love refuses me, In death and shame my partner she shall be.

Tis time to die, when tis a shame to live.

“Let me feel how thy pulses beat.”

“The slowest kiss makes too much haste.”