Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger
Philip Massingerwas an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth2 May 1908
wise curiosity curious
The over curious are not over wise.
wise men desire
Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.
wise fall soar
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
call majesty mean remarkable
And what, in a mean man, I should call folly,/ Is in your majesty remarkable wisdom.
ignorant learned pray worse
Pray enter, You are learned Europeans, and we worse Than ignorant Americans
glued mine takes undone widow wronged
Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,/ And takes away the use of it; 1 and my sword,/ Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears,/ Will not be drawn.
last love violent
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
govern
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
dares valiant
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
cannot desperate driven middle steer
I am driven / Into a desperate strait and cannot steer / A middle course.
Now speak, / Or be for ever silent.
death doors shall thousand
Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one
mean greatness men
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!
summer adversity autumn
0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.