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
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.
men promise poor
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.
art boys men
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
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.
hate judging too-much
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.
men lovely everlasting-love
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
revenge attributes attributes-of-god
Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.
sweet pain eye
There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.
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.
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.
judging wags damn
You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.
war women years
What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!