Occupation: Dramatist Birth: March 3, 1652 Death: April 14, 1685
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?.
You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule..
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 ….
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain..
If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!.
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..
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them..
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel..
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment..
The poor sleep little..
Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy lo….
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….
Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us..
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds….
The worst thing an old man can be is a lover..
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 ….
And die with decency..
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together..
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten..
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you..
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain..