John Fletcher citáty
John Fletcher
Datum narození: 1579
Datum úmrtí: 1625
John Fletcher byl anglický dramatik pozdní renesance.
Citáty John Fletcher
„There is no jesting with edge tools.“
— John Fletcher
Act IV, scene vii.
„I'll put that in my considering cap.“
— John Fletcher
Act II, scene 1.
„That soul that can
Be honest is the only perfect man.“
— John Fletcher
Epilogue. Compare: "An honest man's the noblest work of God", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 248.
„From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.“
— John Fletcher
Act II, scene 2. Compare Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
„Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man
Commands all light, all influence, all fate.
Nothing to him falls early, or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.“
— John Fletcher
Epilogue. Compare: "Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sect. 2, memb. 1, subsect. 2.
„Though I say't that should not say't.“
— John Fletcher
Wit at Several Weapons (with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley; c. 1610–20; published 1647), Act II, scene 2.
