Susanna Centlivre Quotes

• Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Courage, Ships, Sinking

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.357

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• Want is the mistress of invention

  Susanna Centlivre

  Mistress, Want, Invention

  Susanna Centlivre (1746). “The Busie Body. A comedy ... The fifth edition”, p.9

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• All policies allowed in war and love.

  Susanna Centlivre

  War, And Love, Policy

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• Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Reputation, Ill

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• A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Men, Thinking, Unhappy

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot. Platonick lady. Perplex'd lovers. Cruel gift”, p.63

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• Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Cheating, Men, Way

  "The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice".

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• Lying is a thriving Vocation.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Lying, Vocation

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: The life of the author. Perjur'd husband. Beaux's duel. Gamester. Basset table. Love at a venture. Stolen heiress”, p.159

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• my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Doctors, Three, Months

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.97

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• I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Philosophy, Past, Care

  John Dryden, Susanna Centlivre, George Farquhar, Robert Howard (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. AMPHITRION. By John Dryden, Esq. ; BUSY BODY. By Mrs. Centlivre ; BOLD STROKE for a WIFE. By ditto ; BEAUX STRATAGEM. By Mr. Farquhar ; COMMITTEE. By Sir R. Howard”, p.69

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• Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

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  Honesty, Trying, Boast

  Susanna Centlivre (1760). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic lady. Perplexed lovers. Cruel gift”, p.282

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• Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Age, Youth, Pleasure

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The perjur'd husband. The beau's duel. The gamester. The basset-table. Love at a venture. The stolen heiress”, p.205

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• Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

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  Names, Noble, Refined

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• TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Women, Light, Yesterday

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• And lash the vice and follies of the age.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Age, Vices, Lashes

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre: The wonder. The man bewitch'd Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.79

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