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
wise greatness men
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.
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.
love men old-man
The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
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?
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.
honesty hands coward
Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.
together misery moments
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
may proud speak
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!
spring eye home
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.
apples damn mankind
And for an apple damn'd mankind.
revenge attributes attributes-of-god
Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.