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
pain hours pleasure
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
wise fall soar
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
honor dignity lost
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....
journey mind easy
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
mean greatness men
Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!
men liberty wedlock
For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.
Now speak, / Or be for ever silent.
black faults
Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
hurt revenge soul
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.
men blood order
As 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.
men wife doubt
And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.
home house emperor
I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.
men years differences
The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither. And wealth, when there's such difference in years, And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.
fall doubt despair
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.