Thomas Middleton Quotes

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

~ Thomas Middleton

Let me feel how thy pulses beat.

~ Thomas Middleton

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

~ Thomas Middleton

Lussurioso: Welcome, be not far off, we must be better acquainted. Push, be bold with us, thy hand!Vindice: With all my heart, i'faith. How dost, sweet musk-cat? When shall we lie together?Lussurioso: (aside) Wondrous knave!Gather him into boldness? 'Sfoot, the slave'sAlready 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!

~ Thomas Middleton

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

~ Thomas Middleton

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.

~ Thomas Middleton

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

~ Thomas Middleton

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

~ Thomas Middleton