Michael Drayton quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Michael Drayton on Wise Famous Quotes.

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

It is your virtue, being men, to try;
And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.