George Lillo Quotes

• Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

  George Lillo

  Truth, Enemy, Truth Is

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Fatal curiosity”, p.73

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• There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

  George Lillo

  Passion, Soul, Humans

  'The Fatal Curiosity' (1736) act 1, sc. 2

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• What shall we call this undetermin'd state,
  This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans,
  That whence we came, and that to which we tend?

  George Lillo

  Life, Ocean, Two

  George Lillo, John HOADLY (LL.D., Dramatic Writer.) (1762). “Arden of Feversham: An Historical Tragedy: Taken from Holingshead's Chronicle, In the Reign of King Edward VI. Acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. By the Late Mr. Lillo”, p.34

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• A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

  George Lillo

  Real, Men, Light

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• When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.

  George Lillo

  Gratitude, Heart, Blessing

  George Lillo (1810). “Fatal curiosity, a tragedy. Marina, a play. Elmerick; or, Justice triumphant, a tragedy. Britannia and Batavia, a masque. Arden of Feversham, a tragedy”, p.126

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• The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

  George Lillo

  Heart, Yield, Purpose

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