Thomas Kyd quotes

My son – and what's a son? A thing begot Within a pair of minutes, thereabout: A lump bred up in darkness. (Thomas Kyd)
Evil news fly faster still than good. View quote
Thomas Kyd
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own. View quote
Thomas Kyd
For what's a play without a woman in it? View quote
Thomas Kyd
Where words prevail not, violence prevails; 
But gold doth more than either of them both. View quote
Thomas Kyd
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. View quote
Thomas Kyd
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs, Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds. View quote
Thomas Kyd
What outcries pluck me from my naked bed And chill my throbbing heart with trembling fear. View quote
Thomas Kyd
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure, In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower. View quote
Thomas Kyd
Dost thou think to live till his old doublet will make thee a new truss? View quote
Thomas Kyd
As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell. (Thomas Kyd)
Duly twice a morning Would I be sprinkling it with fountain-water. At last it grew, and grew, and bore, and bore, Till at the length It grew a gallows, and did bear our son, It bore thy fruit and mine: O wicked, wicked plant. View quote
Thomas Kyd