Sir John Suckling

Poet and courtier, 1609-1641

Cited as Suckling. — 9 quotations

There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III.

Once one may crave for love.

My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment.

They heighten distempers to diseases.

All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace.

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.

Some three months since, or thereabout.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover?