Colley Cibber quotes
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“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 CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1777). “The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second”, p.211
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“Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.49
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“Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1761). “The double gallant: or, The sick lady's cure”, p.7
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“Losers must have leave to speak.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.102
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“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.”
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“Stolen sweets are best.”
-- Colley CibberSource : 'The Rival Fools' (1709) act 1, sc. 1
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“Words are but empty thanks.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (2001). “The Plays of Colley Cibber”, p.226, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
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“Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.”
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“The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.”
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“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.”
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“Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “The refusal; The provoked husband; Love in a riddle; Perolla and Izadora; Rival queans”, p.238
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“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 CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1830). “An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian”, p.27
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“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 CibberSource : Colley Cibber, “The Blind Boy”
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“Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1754). “The Dramatick Works of Colley Cibber, Esq; ... in Four Volumes. ...”
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“So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.11
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“What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.334
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“Banish that fear; my flame can never waste, For love sincere refines upon the taste.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Joseph Addison, Robert Jephson, David Garrick, George Farquhar, Colley Cibber (1815). “Cato. A Tragedy”
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“You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.”
-- Colley CibberSource : 'Love's Last Shift' (1696) act 2
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“Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.”
-- Colley CibberSource : 'The Double Gallant' (1707) act 1, sc. 2
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“We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1725). “Love's Last Shift; or, the Fool in fashion. A comedy, etc”, p.49
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“The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1777). “The double gallant; Ximena; the comical lovers; The non-juror”, p.83
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“A weak invention of the Enemy.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.53
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“Possession is eleven points in the law.”
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.121
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“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 CibberSource : Colley Cibber, “The Blind Boy”
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