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
honesty men knaves
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
honesty ornaments needs
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
graves beggar
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?
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.
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.
love-is treasure rich
If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.
honesty hands coward
Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.
english-dramatist labour loads shining
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.