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
please word
If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
blessings children
Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.
ambition lust enjoyment
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
honesty men knaves
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
judging wags damn
You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.
women believe angel
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
break-up broken-heart heartbreak
If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
revenge attributes attributes-of-god
Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.
boys mind coward
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
talking knaves rogues
Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
honesty ornaments needs
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
graves beggar
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?
love men old-man
The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
grief sorrow speak
Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.