Colley Cibber
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Thou strange piece of wild nature!
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.Collection: Running
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.Collection: Party
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.Collection: Happiness
Stolen sweets are best.Collection: Sweet
Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.Collection: Firsts
Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.Collection: Marriage
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.Collection: Anger
I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.Collection: Eye
Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.Collection: Pain
When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.Collection: Real
Words are but empty thanks.Collection: Thanks
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.Collection: Ephesians
Losers must have leave to speak.Collection: Loss
Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!Collection: Blessing
The happy have whole days.Collection: Happy
Possession is eleven points in the law.Collection: Law
A weak invention of the Enemy.Collection: Enemy
So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.Collection: Life