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“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Ambition #Lust #Enjoyment
“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!”
-- Thomas Otway

#War #Women #Years
“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Men #Lovely #Thee
“There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Sweet #Pain #Eye
“Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Revenge #Attributes #Attributes Of God
“And for an apple damn'd mankind.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Apples #Mankind
“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.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Men #Mind #Noble
“You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Judging #Wags
“I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!”
-- Thomas Otway

#May #Proud #Speak
“Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Justice #Lame #Blind
“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Time #Men #Clock
“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.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Women #Believe #Angel
“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.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Art #Boys #Men
“No praying, it spoils business.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Praying #Spoil
“False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Men #Promise #Poor
“Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Boys #Mind #Coward
“Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Hate #Judging #Too Much
“Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Sex #Nimble #Dames
“Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?”
-- Thomas Otway

#Graves #Beggar
“Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Wise #Greatness #Men
“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.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Women #Hypocrisy #Mind
“Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Heart #Tyrants #Reign
“Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Grief #Sorrow #Speak
“The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Love #Men #Old Man
“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.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Talking #Knaves #Rogues
“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.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Country #Selfish #Cutting
“Children blessings seem, but torments are.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Children #Blessing #Torment
“Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Honesty #Ornaments #Needs
“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Honesty #Men #Knaves
“Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.”
-- Thomas Otway

#Clouds #Shining #Tears

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