Philip Massinger Quotes
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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.
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Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.
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A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.
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The over curious are not over wise.
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Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.
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I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
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Gold--the picklock that never fails.
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It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.
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Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
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Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
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Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.
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Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.
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Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.
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He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.
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Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.
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What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
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Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.
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Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.
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From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.
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Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
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Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.
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My dancing days are past.
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Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.
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One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.
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Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
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You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
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Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
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We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
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Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
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Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And it is a maxim Allowed among them, so they may deceive, They may swear anything; for the queen of love, As they hold constantly, does never punish, But smile, at lovers' perjuries.
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