“Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,
That every bullet hath a lighting place.”

— George Gascoigne

"The Fruites of Warre", line 467, from The Posies (1575); p. 412.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall, That every bullet hath a lighting place." by George Gascoigne?

George Gascoigne photo

George Gascoigne 7

English politician and poet 1525–1577

Related quotes

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country”

Harvey Milk (1930–1978) American politician who became a martyr in the gay community

From a tape recording (1977-11-18) to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), pp. 372. Milk made three recordings for this purpose; these words come from the version given to Frank Robinson.

“My light! O my father the Devil! It hath made all things one, being perfect, even as doth the Darkness!”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 266

“You just sit here and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.”

Imre Kertész (1929–2016) Hungarian writer

Liquidation (2003)

“I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me;
If my bark sinks, 't is to another sea.”

William Ellery Channing (poet) (1818–1901) American writer

A Poet's Hope, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“For my spirit hath left her earthly home
And found a nobler dwelling,
Where the music of light is that of life,
And the starry harps are swelling.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The Golden Violet - Amenaïde
The Golden Violet (1827)

“To his sight
The husk of natural objects opens quite
To the core; and every secret essence there
Reveals the elements of good and fair;
Making him see, where Learning hath no light.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

"The Poet," London Magazine (Oct 1821)

“Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Book I, ch. 6.
Discourses

“Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!”

Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet

Ode written during the War with America (1814).

“My writing is quantum writing. Do you know of the quantum bullet? The quantum bullet, when it's fired, leaves not one hole but two. That's how my writing is.”

Wilson Harris (1921–2018) Guyanese writer

Interview with Wilson Harris (2010) on being Knighted at Queen Elizabeth II Birthday Honours

“This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Related topics