Quotes by Thomas Otway - Page 1

And die with decency.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Death
Decency
Dies
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The poor sleep little.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Littles
Poor
Sleep
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No praying, it spoils business.
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Business
Praying
Spoil
Spoils
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And for an apple damn'd mankind.
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Apples
Damn
Mankind
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Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Beggar
Graves
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Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.
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Heart
Reign
Tyrants
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Children blessings seem, but torments are.
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Blessing
Children
Torment
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If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Love Is
Rich
Treasure
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Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Blind
Justice
Lame
Amongst
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The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Love
Men
Old Man
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You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.
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Damn
Judging
Wags
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Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Honesty
Needs
Ornaments
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Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Grief
Sorrow
Speak
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I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
May
Proud
Speak
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Men
Honesty
Knaves
Repose
Honest Men
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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Embrace
Eternal
Misery
Moments
Together
Vow
Let Us
Moment
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False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Men
Poor
Promise
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Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.
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Attributes
Attributes Of God
Revenge
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O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Men
Everlasting Love
Lovely
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Men
Time
Clock
Constant
Man Will Never
Clocks
Irregular
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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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Wise
Men
Greatness
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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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Hate
Judging
Too Much
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
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Ambition
Enjoyment
Grows
Lust
Philosophy
More
Never
Inflamed
Madder
Quenched
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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Clouds
Shining
Tears
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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
April
Labour
Shining
Showers
Tears
Overcome
Cloud
Loads
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Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Dames
Female
Sex
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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.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Eye
Pain
Sweet
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If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Break Up
Heartbreak
Smile
Unrequited Love
Broken Heart
Heartbroken
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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.
Thomas Otway / Dramatist
Art
Men
Boys
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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.
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Boys
Coward
Mind
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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.
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Home
Eye
Spring
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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.
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Men
Mind
Noble
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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.
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Coward
Hands
Honesty
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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.
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Anger
Women
Hypocrisy
Mind
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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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Knaves
Mutiny
Talking
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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 Otway / Dramatist
Men
Honesty
Needs
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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.
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Women
Angel
Believe
Joy
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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!
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Women
War
Long
Years
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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 Otway / Dramatist
Country
Cutting
Selfish
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