Thomas Otway
Thomas Otway
Thomas Otwaywas an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
sweet pain eye
There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.
men lovely everlasting-love
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
justice lame blind
Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.
time men clock
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
praying spoil
No praying, it spoils business.
clouds shining tears
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
love-is treasure rich
If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.
sleep littles poor
The poor sleep little.
women hypocrisy mind
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.
heart tyrants reign
Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.
grief sorrow speak
Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.
hate judging too-much
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.
boys mind coward
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
men promise poor
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.