Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by John Harington
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer John Harington.
Last updated on December 2, 2024.
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing;
Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.
From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
The readers and the hearers like my books,
And yet some writers cannot them digest;
But what care I? for when I make a feast,
I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
Best fishing in troubled waters.
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