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
numbers example sin
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
believe play secret
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
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.
judging innocence
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
religious failure ungrateful
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
ambition men blessing
Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.
gold sparkle horns
A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....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.
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.
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.