John Fletcher citáty
John Fletcher
Datum narození: 1579
Datum úmrtí: 1625
John Fletcher byl anglický dramatik pozdní renesance.
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„Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we.
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the gallows tree.“
— John Fletcher
Act III, scene iii. Compare: "Three merry men be we", George Peele, Old Wives' Tale, 1595. John Webster (quoted), Westward Hoe, 1607.
„O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people.“
— John Fletcher
The Two Noble Kinsmen (with William Shakespeare; c. 1613; published 1634), Act V, scene 1.
„Death hath so many doors to let out life.“
— John Fletcher
The Custom of the Country (with Philip Massinger; c. 1619–23; published 1647), Act II, scene 2
Compare: "I know death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to take their exits.", John Webster, Dutchess of Malfi (1623); act IV, scene ii
„Hence, all you vain delights,
As short as are the nights
Wherein you spend your folly!
There's naught in this life sweet
But only melancholy;
O sweetest melancholy!“
— John Fletcher
The Nice Valor (1647), Melancholy. Compare: "Naught so sweet as melancholy", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy.
„Of all the paths lead to a woman's love
Pity's the straightest.“
— John Fletcher
The Knight of Malta (1647), Act I, sc. i.
„Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.“
— John Fletcher
The Chances (c. 1613–25; 1647), Act II, scene 2. Song.
„Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.“
— John Fletcher
Act IV, scene 4.
