Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Kyd

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English dramatist Thomas Kyd.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Thomas Kyd was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.

English - Dramatist | November 6, 1558 - 1594

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My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

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.

Thomas Kyd

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

Thomas Kyd

Evil news fly faster still than good.

Thomas Kyd

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

Thomas Kyd

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

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.

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, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

Thomas Kyd

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

Thomas Kyd

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

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

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Kyd

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