Philip Massinger Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

  Philip Massinger

  Giving, Credit, Kind

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford (1813). “Plays: The maid of honour. The picture. The Emperor of the East. The fatal dowry. A new way to pay old debts”, p.62

• Honour is
  Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps
  All perfect justice in her arms; that craves
  No more respect than that she gives; that does
  Nothing but what she'll suffer.

  Philip Massinger

  Giving, Perfect, Justice

• As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Blood, Order

  Philip Massinger (1805). “The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford”, p.413

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