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Phineas Fletcher Quotes

Love's tongue is in the eyes.

Love's tongue is in the eyes.

Phineas Fletcher
Love, Anniversary, Eye
'Piscatory Eclogues' (1633) no. 5, st. 13

Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.

Phineas Fletcher
Beautiful
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 31-33, Sicelides, act II, scene 4, 1922.

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

Phineas Fletcher
Fear, Joy, Swim
Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher (1783). “The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher”, p.116

Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.

Phineas Fletcher
Best Love, Love Is, Changed
'Sicelides' (performed 1614) act 3, sc. 5

Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.

Phineas Fletcher
Peace, Fear, Eye
'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'

Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.

Phineas Fletcher
Long, Addresses, Praise

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

Phineas Fletcher
Swans, Years, Dying

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