John Fletcher was an English playwright known for his dramatic and poetic works. His career spanned the 17th century and had a profound impact on the development of English drama.
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“A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.”
Source: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Women pleas'd. Night-walker, or, the little thief. Island princess. Women's prize, or the tamer tam'd. Noble gentleman
“The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory”
Source: Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber
Source: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle
“Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: Printed from the Text
“Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.”
“Great actions speak great minds.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory
Source: The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory
“Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.”
Source: The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes
Source: The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher
“Deeds, not words shall speak me.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory
“Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.”
Source: The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher
“Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.”
“Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
Source: The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes
“That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.”
Source: The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one
“O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!”
Source: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Laws of candy. False one. Little French lawyer. Tragedy of Valentinian. Monsieur Thomas
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Fletcher, Late Vicar of Madeley
“Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.”
Source: The Bloody Brother: A Tragedy
Source: Letters
“Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.”
Source: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
“We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.”
Source: The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions
“I find the medicine worse than the malady.”
Source: The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The knight of the burning pestle. Loves pilgrimage. The double marriage. The maid in the mill. The knight of Malta. Love's cure. Women pleas'd