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Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Overbury

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet Thomas Overbury.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Thomas Overbury

Sir Thomas Overbury was an English poet and essayist, also known for being the victim of a murder which led to a scandalous trial. His poem A Wife, which depicted the virtues that a young man should demand of a woman, played a large role in the events that precipitated his murder.

English - Poet | 1581 - 1613

Source: Wikipedia

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

Beauty is only skin deep.

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it. — © Thomas Overbury

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

Things were first made, then words.

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

Thomas Overbury

Thomas Overbury

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