Thomas Otway quotes
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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!”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.254
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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.”
-- Thomas Otway#Revenge Quotes #Attributes Quotes #Attributes Of God Quotes
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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.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : 1676 Don Carlos, act 2.
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“You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : 1677 Titus and Berenice, prologue.
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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.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”
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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.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : 'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337
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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.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Lynette Feasey, John Milton, Thomas Otway, William Congreve (1951). “And so to the playhouse”
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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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“Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.266
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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.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway (1812). “The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters”, p.156
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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.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Ambrose Philips, Jean Racine, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southern, Nicholas Rowe (1817). “Tragedy of the Distrest Mother Transl. from the Andromaque of Racine, with the Life of the Author by Johnson and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”
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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.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Roger Boyle Earl of Orrery (1703). “The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre”, p.12
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“Children blessings seem, but torments are.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Thomas Otway”, p.131
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“Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”
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“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17
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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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“Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”
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“Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : 1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.
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“Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : 1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.
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“If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : 1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.
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“The poor sleep little.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : 1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act 2, sc.3.
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“And die with decency.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”
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“You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.”
-- Thomas OtwaySource : William Congreve, James Miller, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Thomas Southern (1815). “The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy”
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“If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.”
-- Thomas Otway
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