John Denham: Likeness

John Denham was English poet and courtier. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

John Denham: 36 quotes0 likes

“Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show,
We may our ends by our beginnings know.”

Of Prudence, line 225.

“Ambition is like love, impatient
Both of delays and rivals.”

The Sophy: A Tragedy, Act I, scene ii.

“We're ne'er like angels till our passion dies.”

Not by Denham, as often stated, but by Thomas Dekker. It is in his The Honest Whore Part 2, Act I, scene 2.
Misattributed

“Actions o' th' last age are like almanacks o' th' last year.”

The Sophy: A Tragedy (1642), Act I, scene ii.

“Search not to find how other men offend,
But by that glass thy own offences mend;
Still seek to learn, yet care not much from whom,
(So it be learning) or from whence it come.
Of thy own actions, others' judgments learn;
Often by small, great matters we discern:
Youth what man's age is like to be doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.”

Source: Of Prudence (1668), line 225