Philip Massinger
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!Collection: Judging
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.Collection: Marriage
He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.Collection: Suicide
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.Collection: Hurt
As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.Collection: Men
Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.Collection: Art
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.Collection: Religious
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.Collection: Numbers
My dancing days are past.Collection: Past
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!Collection: Action
Gold--the picklock that never fails.Collection: Gold
Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.Collection: Names
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.Collection: Acting
Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance-- Be often kissed and tasted.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Death
Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.Collection: Wise
They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.Collection: Lust
The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.Collection: Men