Thomas Otway
Thomas Otway
Thomas Otwaywas an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
grief sorrow speak
Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.
heart tyrants reign
Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.
women hypocrisy mind
Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.
honesty men needs
You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.
praying spoil
No praying, it spoils business.
time men clock
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
justice lame blind
Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.
apples damn mankind
And for an apple damn'd mankind.
together misery moments
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
may proud speak
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!
spring eye home
Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
clouds shining tears
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
love-is treasure rich
If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.
sleep littles poor
The poor sleep little.