Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger
Philip Massingerwas an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth2 May 1908
ignorant learned pray worse
Pray enter, You are learned Europeans, and we worse Than ignorant Americans
glued mine takes undone widow wronged
Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,/ And takes away the use of it; 1 and my sword,/ Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears,/ Will not be drawn.
death doors shall thousand
Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one
call majesty mean remarkable
And what, in a mean man, I should call folly,/ Is in your majesty remarkable wisdom.
dares valiant
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
govern
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
last love violent
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
journey mind easy
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
honor dignity lost
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....
marriage men married
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
action speak pity
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
acting jew
This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
giving credit kind
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
doors thousand
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.