John Wilmot Quotes
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He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
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Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
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If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.
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Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.
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For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.
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All men would be cowards if they could.
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All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.
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I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.
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To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.
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Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.
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Born to myself, I like myself alone.
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Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.
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Dead we become the lumber of the world.
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Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit.
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Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.
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I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.
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Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
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Man differs more from man than man from beast
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Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise.
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The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.
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The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
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Late children are early orphans.
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I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.
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I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.
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Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
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Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.
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'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .
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any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
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Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find
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For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door, Are senseless stories, idle tales, Dreams, whimseys, and no more.
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