Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Philip MassingerTis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.
Philip MassingerTo doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Philip MassingerPetitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
Philip MassingerHow sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.
Philip MassingerWe have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
Philip Massinger0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.
Philip MassingerRevenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.
Philip MassingerVirtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.
Philip MassingerBut married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
Philip MassingerI had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
Philip MassingerAs the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.
Philip Massinger