Colley Cibber Quotes

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.

When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

The happy have whole days.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.

A weak invention of the Enemy.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.