John Wilmot Quotations

Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand,Lead him to death, and make him understand,After a search so painful and so long,That all his life he has been in the wrong.

Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.

Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door, Are senseless stories, idle tales, Dreams, whimseys, and no more.

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

Late children are early orphans.

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find