John Wilmot Quotes

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• I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

  John Wilmot

  Teaching, Love Life, Forgiving

  "Fictional character: Rochester". "The Libertine", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• 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

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

  John Wilmot

  Passion, Envy, Shame

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• Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

  John Wilmot

  Heat, Chemistry, Equal

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• 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, Proud

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.23, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

  John Wilmot

  Interest In Life, Expenses, Libertine

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• All men would be cowards if they could.

  John Wilmot

  Men, Coward, Would Be

  'A Satire Against Mankind' (1679) l. 158

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• 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

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

  John Wilmot

  Law, Strange, Constancy

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.53, Taylor & Francis

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• 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

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.102, Taylor & Francis

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• Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

  John Wilmot

  Lust, Natural, Rochester

  'A Ramble in St James' Park'

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• 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

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• Man differs more from man than man from beast

  John Wilmot

  Men, Beast, Rochester

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.103, Taylor & Francis

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• 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

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• Farewell, woman! I intend
  Henceforth every night to sit
  With my lewd, well-natured friend,
  Drinking to engender wit.

  John Wilmot

  Women, Drinking, Farewell

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.73, Taylor & Francis

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• 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

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• He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

  John Wilmot

  Sarcastic, Wise, Foolish

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• Love, the most generous passion of the mind
  The softest refuge innocence can find

  John Wilmot

  Passion, Mind, Innocence

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.11, Taylor & Francis

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• Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

  John Wilmot

  Excellence, Taste, Faults

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

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• To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

  John Wilmot

  Kindness, Greatness, Men

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.61, Taylor & Francis

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• Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose,
  And safe from action, valiantly advise;
  Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows,
  And being good for nothing else, be wise.

  John Wilmot

  Wise, Drinking, Blow

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.112, Taylor & Francis

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• Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

  John Wilmot

  Love, Jealous, Heart

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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

  John Wilmot

  Wish, Theater, Libertine

  "Fictional character: Rochester". "The Libertine", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• 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

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.126, Taylor & Francis

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