Quotes by Colley Cibber - Page 1

Stolen sweets are best.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Stolen
Sweet
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The happy have whole days.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Happy
Whole
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Words are but empty thanks.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Empty
Thanks
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A weak invention of the Enemy.
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Enemy
Invention
Weak
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Losers must have leave to speak.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Loser
Loss
Speak
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Thou strange piece of wild nature!
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Strange
Wild
Piece
Thou
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Possession is eleven points in the law.
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Eleven
Law
Possession
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So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.
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Life
Dames
Love Life
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Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
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Bliss
Pain
Past
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Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Firsts
Please
Steps
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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Compass
Good Man
Good Manners
Manners
Screw You
Wit
Beyond
Good Good Manners Manners
Screw
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Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Marriage
Wedding
Circles
Lying
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Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Cost
House
Party
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You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Fashion
Fashionable
World
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Earth
Faces
Wit
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Banish that fear; my flame can never waste, For love sincere refines upon the taste.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Life
Flames
Taste
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What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Life
Crime
Done
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The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Ephesians
Fool
Youth
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The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Happiness
Hours
Unhappy
Whole
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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 Cibber / Actor
Kings
Boys
Cheer
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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 Cibber / Actor
Anger
Fury
Hell
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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 Cibber / Actor
Blessing
Boys
Light
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Colley Cibber / Actor
Absent
Cease
Assume
Outline
Shape
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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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Fear
Men
Feet
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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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Eye
Hands
Two
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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 Cibber / Actor
Running
Food
Fall
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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 Cibber / Actor
People
Real
Vanity
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