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Thomas Kyd Quotes

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

Trust Myself, My Friends

c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 3, sc.2.

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

Winning, Force

Thomas Kyd “The Spanish Tragedy”, W. W. Norton & Company

Evil news fly faster still than good.

Evil, News, Faster

Thomas Kyd, David Bevington (1996). “The Spanish Tragedy”, p.33, Manchester University Press

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

Violence

c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

Mad, Brave, Wonder

'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 7, The Fourth Addition (1602 ed.) l. 164

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

Men, Toil, Remedy

'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 6, l. 1

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

Time, Pain, Fall

c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Eye, Tears, World

'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

Tragedy, Haste, Ease

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