Thomas Otway
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.Collection: Philosophy
If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.Collection: Love Is
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?Collection: Graves
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.Collection: Honesty
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.Collection: Honesty
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.Collection: Women
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.Collection: Together
You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.Collection: Judging
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.Collection: Boys
The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.Collection: Love
The poor sleep little.Collection: Sleep
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.Collection: Time
Children blessings seem, but torments are.Collection: Children
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.Collection: Men
Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.Collection: Justice
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.Collection: Spring
And for an apple damn'd mankind.Collection: Apples
Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.Collection: Grief
And die with decency.Collection: Death
Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.Collection: Honesty
Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.Collection: Men
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.Collection: Sex
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.Collection: Hate
There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.Collection: Sweet
No praying, it spoils business.Collection: Business
Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.Collection: Heart
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.Collection: Clouds
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.Collection: Art
Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.Collection: Revenge
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!Collection: May