John Wilmot famous quotes

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.
-- John Wilmot

#Teaching #Love Life #Forgiving

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.
-- John Wilmot

#Broken #Lovers #Fainting

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot

#Funny #Leadership #Children

For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door, Are senseless stories, idle tales, Dreams, whimseys, and no more.
-- John Wilmot

#Dream #Dog #Doors

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense
-- John Wilmot

#Vices #Want #Suits

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.
-- John Wilmot

#Hate #Thrones #France

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.
-- John Wilmot

#Lying #Men #Self

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.
-- John Wilmot

#Drug #Theatre #Quality

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
-- John Wilmot

#Philosophy #Book #Swim

All men would be cowards if they could.
-- John Wilmot

#Men #Coward #Would Be

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
-- John Wilmot

#Marriage #Wife #Life Is

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.
-- John Wilmot

#Lust #Natural #Generous

Custom does often reason overrule.
-- John Wilmot

#Doe #Reason

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.
-- John Wilmot

#Passion #Envy #Shame

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.
-- John Wilmot

#Marriage #Daughter #Mother

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.
-- John Wilmot

#Excellence #Taste #Faults

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
-- John Wilmot

#Law #Strange #Constancy

Late children are early orphans.
-- John Wilmot

#Children #Orphan

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
-- John Wilmot

#Interest #Expenses #Experiments

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.
-- John Wilmot

#Interesting #Mind #World

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.
-- John Wilmot

#Wish #Theater #Feels

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
-- John Wilmot

#Wise #Kings #Promise

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.
-- John Wilmot

#Dog #Animal #Monkeys

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
-- John Wilmot

#Sarcastic #Wise #Foolish

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.
-- John Wilmot

#Men #World #Very Good

Man differs more from man than man from beast
-- John Wilmot

#Men #Beast

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find
-- John Wilmot

#Passion #Mind #Innocence

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.
-- John Wilmot

#Honesty #Men #Common Sense

If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.
-- John Wilmot

#Grateful #Heart #Wine

Dead we become the lumber of the world.
-- John Wilmot

#World #Lumber

'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .
-- John Wilmot

#Jealous #Fate #Thinking

Born to myself, I like myself alone.
-- John Wilmot

#Self #Born