Thomas Nashe Quotes & Sayings

Blest is that government where no art thrives. — Thomas Nashe

Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav'st to appear. — Thomas Nashe

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. — Thomas Nashe

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism. — Thomas Nashe

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship! — Thomas Nashe

A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing. — Thomas Nashe

The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high
beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart. — Thomas Nashe

Shape your coat according to your cloth. — Thomas Nashe

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior. — Thomas Nashe

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us! — Thomas Nashe

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels. — Thomas Nashe