Thomas Otway Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”
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“What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!”
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“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.”
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“There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.”
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“Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.”
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“Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.”
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“You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.”
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“I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!”
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“Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.”
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“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
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“Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.”
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“No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.”
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“False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.”
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“Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.”
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“Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.”
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“Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.”
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“Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.”
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“Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.”
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“Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.”
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“The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.”
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“Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.”
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“How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.”
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“Children blessings seem, but torments are.”
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“Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.”
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“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”
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“Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.”
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