Theresa Villiers quotes
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“For all true love is grounded on esteem.”
-- Theresa VilliersSource : "The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, Volume 2". Book by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ("To His Mistress", p. 138), 1770.
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“Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.”
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“I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.”
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“What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?”
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“Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus , Montaigne , Seneca 's Tragedies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian, Pliny , Plutarch 's lives , and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.”
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“Our Poets make us laugh at TragÅ“dy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.”
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“O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!”
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“She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.”
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“We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re paying.”
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“A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.”
-- Theresa Villiers
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