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
talking knaves rogues
Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
honesty ornaments needs
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
children blessing torment
Children blessings seem, but torments are.
honesty men needs
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.
death dies decency
And die with decency.
art boys men
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
break-up broken-heart heartbreak
If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
women believe angel
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 that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
judging wags damn
You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.
war women years
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 a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!
honesty men knaves
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
country selfish cutting
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 whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.
ambition lust enjoyment
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.