Colley Cibber famous quotes

05-19-2025

Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
-- Colley Cibber

#Running #Fall #Food
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
-- Colley Cibber

#Good Man #Screw You #Compass
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
-- Colley Cibber

#Party #House #Cost
Losers must have leave to speak.
-- Colley Cibber

#Loss #Loser #Speak
I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.
-- Colley Cibber

#Eye #Hands #Two
Stolen sweets are best.
-- Colley Cibber

#Sweet #Stolen
Words are but empty thanks.
-- Colley Cibber

#Thanks #Empty
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
-- Colley Cibber

#Earth #Faces #Wit
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
-- Colley Cibber

#Ephesians #Fool #Youth
The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames; Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.
-- Colley Cibber

#Fear #Men #Eagles
Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.
-- Colley Cibber

#Firsts #Steps #Please
When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.
-- Colley Cibber

#Real #Vanity #People
Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!
-- Colley Cibber

#Blessing #Boys #Light
Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
-- Colley Cibber

#Pain #Past #Bliss
The happy have whole days,
-- Colley Cibber

#Happy
So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.
-- Colley Cibber

#Life #Love Life #Dames
What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.
-- Colley Cibber

#Life #Done #Crime
Banish that fear; my flame can never waste, For love sincere refines upon the taste.
-- Colley Cibber

#Life #Flames #Taste
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
-- Colley Cibber

#Fashion #World
Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
-- Colley Cibber

#Marriage #Wedding #Lying
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
-- Colley Cibber

#Anger #Hell #Fury
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
-- Colley Cibber

#Happiness #Unhappy #Hours
A weak invention of the Enemy.
-- Colley Cibber

#Enemy #Weak #Invention
Possession is eleven points in the law.
-- Colley Cibber

#Law #Eleven #Possession
Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy. Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy!
-- Colley Cibber

#Cheer #Boys #Mind

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