George Wither Quotes

George Wither was an English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style; he was several times imprisoned. C. V. Wedgwood wrote "every so often in the barren acres of his verse is a stretch enlivened by real wit and observation, or fired with a sudden intensity of feeling". Wikipedia  

✵ 11. June 1588 – 2. May 1667
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Famous George Wither Quotes

“And he that gives us in these days
New Lords may give us new laws.”

Contented Man’s Morrice; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“And I oft have heard defended,—
Little said is soonest mended.”

The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Shall I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman’s fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care,
’Cause another’s rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?”

The Shepherd's Resolution; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?", Sir Walter Raleigh, Poem.

“Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.”

Poem on Christmas; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.”

Poem on Christmas; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Hang sorrow! care ’ll kill a cat", Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Act i. Sc. 3.

“Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.”

The Shepherd’s Hunting (printed 1615); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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