Thomas Otway famous quotes

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
-- Thomas Otway

#Ambition #Lust #Enjoyment

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!
-- Thomas Otway

#War #Women #Years

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
-- Thomas Otway

#Men #Lovely #Thee

There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.
-- Thomas Otway

#Sweet #Pain #Eye

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.
-- Thomas Otway

#Revenge #Attributes #Attributes Of God

And for an apple damn'd mankind.
-- Thomas Otway

#Apples #Mankind

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.
-- Thomas Otway

#Men #Mind #Noble

You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.
-- Thomas Otway

#Judging #Wags

I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!
-- Thomas Otway

#May #Proud #Speak

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.
-- Thomas Otway

#Justice #Lame #Blind

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
-- Thomas Otway

#Time #Men #Clock

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.
-- Thomas Otway

#Women #Believe #Angel

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.
-- Thomas Otway

#Art #Boys #Men

No praying, it spoils business.
-- Thomas Otway

#Praying #Spoil

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.
-- Thomas Otway

#Men #Promise #Poor

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
-- Thomas Otway

#Boys #Mind #Coward

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.
-- Thomas Otway

#Hate #Judging #Too Much

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
-- Thomas Otway

#Sex #Nimble #Dames

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?
-- Thomas Otway

#Graves #Beggar

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.
-- Thomas Otway

#Wise #Greatness #Men

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.
-- Thomas Otway

#Women #Hypocrisy #Mind

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.
-- Thomas Otway

#Heart #Tyrants #Reign

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.
-- Thomas Otway

#Grief #Sorrow #Speak

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
-- Thomas Otway

#Love #Men #Old Man

Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
-- Thomas Otway

#Talking #Knaves #Rogues

How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.
-- Thomas Otway

#Country #Selfish #Cutting

Children blessings seem, but torments are.
-- Thomas Otway

#Children #Blessing #Torment

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
-- Thomas Otway

#Honesty #Ornaments #Needs

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
-- Thomas Otway

#Honesty #Men #Knaves

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
-- Thomas Otway

#Clouds #Shining #Tears

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
-- Thomas Otway

#Together #Misery #Moments

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.
-- Thomas Otway

#Spring #Eye #Home

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.
-- Thomas Otway

#Honesty #Hands #Coward

If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.
-- Thomas Otway

#Love Is #Treasure #Rich

The poor sleep little.
-- Thomas Otway

#Sleep #Littles #Poor

And die with decency.
-- Thomas Otway

#Death #Decency

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.
-- Thomas Otway

#Honesty #Men #Needs

If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
-- Thomas Otway

#Broken Heart #Thinking #Giving