The Changeling Quotes

“Let me feel how thy pulses beat.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

“FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

“Her fingers touched me!
She smells all amber.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

“Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

“How sweetly she looks! O, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy. - Anacreon, drink to my mistress' health, I'll pledge it. Stay, stay, there's a spider in the cup! No, 'tis but a grape-stone; swallow it, fear nothing, poet. So, so; lift higher.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

“She that in life and love refuses me,
In death and shame my partner she shall be.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

“I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her:
No matter, if but to vex her, I'll haunt her still;
Though I get nothing else, I'll have my will.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Changeling

“Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgements,
And should give certain judgement what they see;
But they are rash sometimes, and tell us wonders
Of common things, which when our judgments find,
They can then check the eyes, and call them blind.”
― Thomas Middleton, The Changeling