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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!

    "Best Plays".
  • And die with decency.

    Death   Dies   Decency  
    Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”
  • You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

    Judging   Wags   Damn  
    1677 Titus and Berenice, prologue.
  • Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

    Grief   Sorrow   Speak  
    Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.125
  • Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

    Time   Men   Clock  
  • And for an apple damn'd mankind.

    Apples   Damn   Mankind  
    1680 TheOrphan, act 3.
  • 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.

    Spring   Home   Eye  
    1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.
  • Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

    Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”
  • The poor sleep little.

    Sleep   Littles   Poor  
    1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act 2, sc.3.
  • I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

    May   Proud   Speak  
    1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.
  • There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.

    Sweet   Pain   Eye  
  • Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

    Wise   Greatness   Men  
  • Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

    Clouds   Shining   Tears  
  • 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.

    Women   Believe   Angel  
    'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337
  • The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

    Love   Men   Old Man  
    Ambrose Philips, Jean Racine, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southern, Nicholas Rowe (1817). “Tragedy of the Distrest Mother Transl. from the Andromaque of Racine, with the Life of the Author by Johnson and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”
  • 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.

    Art   Men   Boys  
  • 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!

    War   Women   Years  
    Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.254
  • False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

    Men   Promise   Poor  
  • O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

    'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337
  • Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

    Graves   Beggar  
    Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.266
  • Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

    Thomas Otway (1874). “Venice Preserved: A Tragedy in Five Acts ...”, p.13
  • 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.

    Women   Anger   Hypocrisy  
    Thomas Otway (1812). “The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters”, p.156
  • Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

  • Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

    Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”
  • Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

    Justice   Lame   Blind  
    Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”
  • Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

    Hate   Judging   Too Much  
  • 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.

    Honesty   Men   Needs  
    William Congreve, James Miller, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Thomas Southern (1815). “The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy”
  • Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

    Heart   Tyrants   Reign  
    Thomas Otway (1777). “The Orphan: Or, The Unhappy Marriage : a Tragedy, as it is Acted at the Theatres Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden”, p.3
  • Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

    Sex   Dames   Female  
    Thomas Otway (1712). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, in Two Volumes”, p.199
  • Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

    Honesty   Men   Knaves  
    Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17
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