A mask of gold hides all deformities.
Thomas Dekker

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
Thomas Dekker

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
Thomas Dekker

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.
Thomas Dekker

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
Thomas Dekker

Honest labor bears a lovely face.
Thomas Dekker

O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dekker

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
Thomas Dekker

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Thomas Dekker


This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Thomas Dekker

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Dekker

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
Thomas Dekker

Were there no women, men might live like gods.
Thomas Dekker

What a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dekker