“A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.”
Source: The Complete Poems
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Famous John Wilmot Quotes
Source: The Complete Poems
Source: The Complete Poems
Source: The Complete Poems
“The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.”
“Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.”
“Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.”
“Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
Source: The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
“Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.”
“any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense”
“I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.”
“I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Illustrated)
Source: The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
“Man differs more from man than man from beast”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
“Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
“For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.”
“Dead we become the lumber of the world.”
Source: The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
“Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
“Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
“Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.”
Source: The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester