Susanna Centlivre Quotes

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  • A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.

    Men   Thinking   Unhappy  
    Susanna Centlivre (1872). “Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot. Platonick lady. Perplex'd lovers. Cruel gift”, p.63
  • All policies allowed in war and love.

    War   And Love   Policy  
  • Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

    Cheating   Men   Way  
    "The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice".
  • Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

    Reputation   Ill  
  • Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

    Age   Youth   Pleasure  
    Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The perjur'd husband. The beau's duel. The gamester. The basset-table. Love at a venture. The stolen heiress”, p.205
  • Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

    Names   Noble   Refined  
  • Lying is a thriving Vocation.

    Lying   Vocation  
    Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: The life of the author. Perjur'd husband. Beaux's duel. Gamester. Basset table. Love at a venture. Stolen heiress”, p.159
  • Want is the mistress of invention

    Susanna Centlivre (1746). “The Busie Body. A comedy ... The fifth edition”, p.9
  • Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

    Honesty   Trying   Boast  
    Susanna Centlivre (1760). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic lady. Perplexed lovers. Cruel gift”, p.282
  • TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.

    Women   Light   Yesterday  
  • my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

    Doctors   Three   Months  
    Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.97
  • And lash the vice and follies of the age.

    Age   Vices   Lashes  
    Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre: The wonder. The man bewitch'd Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.79
  • I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.

    Philosophy   Past   Care  
    John Dryden, Susanna Centlivre, George Farquhar, Robert Howard (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. AMPHITRION. By John Dryden, Esq. ; BUSY BODY. By Mrs. Centlivre ; BOLD STROKE for a WIFE. By ditto ; BEAUX STRATAGEM. By Mr. Farquhar ; COMMITTEE. By Sir R. Howard”, p.69
  • Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

    Courage   Ships   Sinking  
    Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.357
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