Thomas Otway Quotes

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

No praying, it spoils business.

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

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.

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Children blessings seem, but torments are.

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.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.