Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Heywood

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English playwright Thomas Heywood.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Thomas Heywood was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece A Woman Killed with Kindness, a domestic tragedy, which was first performed in 1603 at the Rose Theatre by the Worcester's Men company. He was a prolific writer, claiming to have had "an entire hand or at least a maine finger in two hundred and twenty plays", although only a fraction of his work has survived.

English - Playwright | 1575 - August 16, 1641

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Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

Thomas Heywood

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

Thomas Heywood

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

Thomas Heywood

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

Thomas Heywood

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

Thomas Heywood

Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.

Thomas Heywood

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

Thomas Heywood