Quotes by Francis Beaumont

"The fool that willingly provokes a woman, has made himself another evil angel and a new hell to which all other torments are but mere pastime..."

"Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted."

"The hand of Heaven is on me, be it far from me to struggle, if my secret sins have pull'd this curse upon me, lend me tears now to wash me white, that I may feel a child-like innocence within my breast; which once perform'd, O give me leave to stand as fix'd as constancy her self, my eyes set here unmov'd, regardless of the world though thousand miseries incompass me."