Thomas Otway Quotes

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

  Thomas Otway

  Philosophy, Ambition, Lust

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• 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

  Thomas Otway, Roger Boyle Earl of Orrery (1703). “The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre”, p.12

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• If we must part for ever,
  Give me but one kind word to think upon,
  And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

  Thomas Otway

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  "Best Plays".

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• If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

  Thomas Otway

  Love Is, Treasure, Rich

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• 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, Anger, Hypocrisy

  Thomas Otway (1812). “The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters”, p.156

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• Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

  Thomas Otway

  Graves, Beggar

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.266

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• Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Men, Knaves

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17

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• Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Ornaments, Needs

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”

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• 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

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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• 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

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.254

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• Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

  Thomas Otway

  Together, Misery, Moments

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”

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• You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

  Thomas Otway

  Judging, Wags, Damn

  1677 Titus and Berenice, prologue.

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• 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

  Lynette Feasey, John Milton, Thomas Otway, William Congreve (1951). “And so to the playhouse”

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• The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

  Thomas Otway

  Love, Men, Old Man

  Ambrose Philips, Jean Racine, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southern, Nicholas Rowe (1817). “Tragedy of the Distrest Mother Transl. from the Andromaque of Racine, with the Life of the Author by Johnson and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”

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• 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

  William Congreve, James Miller, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Thomas Southern (1815). “The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy”

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• The poor sleep little.

  Thomas Otway

  Sleep, Littles, Poor

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act 2, sc.3.

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

  Thomas Otway

  Time, Men, Clock

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• Children blessings seem, but torments are.

  Thomas Otway

  Children, Blessing, Torment

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Thomas Otway”, p.131

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• False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Promise, Poor

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• Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

  Thomas Otway

  Justice, Lame, Blind

  Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”

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• 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, Mutiny, Knaves

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• 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, Home, Eye

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• And for an apple damn'd mankind.

  Thomas Otway

  Apples, Damn, Mankind

  1680 TheOrphan, act 3.

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• Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

  Thomas Otway

  Grief, Sorrow, Speak

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.125

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

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Lovely, Everlasting Love

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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