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
love men old-man
The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
wise greatness men
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.
men mind noble
Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.
men lovely everlasting-love
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
time men clock
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
men promise poor
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.
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.
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.
honesty men knaves
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
please word
If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
english-dramatist labour loads shining
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
blessings children
Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.
sex nimble dames
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
graves beggar
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?