Children blessings seem, but torments are.

- Thomas Otway

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

- Thomas Otway

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

- Thomas Otway

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 …

- Thomas Otway

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

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…

- Thomas Otway

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

- Thomas Otway

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

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

- Thomas Otway