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.
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave? - Thomas Otway
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?
- Thomas Otway
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. - Thomas Otway
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Children blessings seem, but torments are. - Thomas Otway
Children blessings seem, but torments are.
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
If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!
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
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…
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
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 …
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
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.
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. - Thomas Otway
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. - Thomas Otway
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
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