“Oh, happy kings,
Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.”
John Ford (dramatist) Perkin Warbeck
Perkin Warbeck, Act III, sc. i. (c. 1629-34)
Works
The Broken Heart
John Ford (dramatist)'Tis Pity She's a Whore
John Ford (dramatist)Perkin Warbeck
John Ford (dramatist)The Broken Heart
John Ford (dramatist)'Tis Pity She's a Whore
John Ford (dramatist)Perkin Warbeck
John Ford (dramatist)John Ford (dramatist): 33 quotes1 like
Famous John Ford (dramatist) Quotes
“He hath shook hands with time.”
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act V, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
“Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.”
John Ford (dramatist) Love's Sacrifice
Love's Sacrifice, Act I, sc. i. (1632?)
Charles Lamb Specimens of English Dramatic Poets ([1808] 1854) p. 228.
Criticism
“Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.”
John Ford (dramatist) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Act III, sc. iii.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
John Ford (dramatist) Quotes about love
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act IV, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
Act I, sc. iii.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
Act III, sc. iii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
John Ford (dramatist) Quotes
Act III, sc. v.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
“Revenge proves its own executioner.”
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act IV, sc. i.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act IV, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
The Fancies, Chaste and Noble Act I, sc. iii.
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act I, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”
Act I, sc. iii.
The Lady's Trial (1638)
“Busy opinion is an idle fool.”
John Ford (dramatist) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Act V, sc. iii.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
“Glories
Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams,
And shadows soon decaying.”
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act III, sc. v.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
“Brother, even by my mother's dust, I charge you,
Do not betray me to your mirth or hate.”
Act I, sc. iii.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
“Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.”
Act III, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
“Ford is rather a sculptor of character than a painter.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne Essays and Studies ([1875] 1888) p. 278.
Criticism
“Philosophers dwell in the moon.”
Act III, sc. iii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
“Sister, look ye,
How, by a new creation of my tailor's
I've shook off old mortality.”
The Fancies, Chaste and Noble Act I, sc. iii. (1635-6)
“Nice philosophy
May tolerate unlikely arguments,
But heaven admits no jest.”
Act I, sc. i.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act II, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
Act V, sc. v.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
“Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.”
Act V, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
“Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play
With the severity of fate.”
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act I, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
“Flattery
Is monstrous in a true friend.”
Act I, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
“Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.”
Act III, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
Act I, sc. ii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act IV, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
