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Famous Philip Massinger Quotes
“What’s bred in the bone, Admits no hope of cure.”
Source: The City-Madam: A Comedie, as It Was Acted at the Private House in Black Friers with Great Applause
“What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!”
Source: The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence
“Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.”
“Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.”
Source: The Plays
Source: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence
“What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford
Source: Dramatic Works: The renegado. The picture. The fatal dowry. The emperor of the East. The maid of honour
Source: The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger...
“Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.”
“If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.”
Source: A New Way to pay Old Debts. A comedy in five acts
“A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.”
Source: The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bondman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence
“Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.”
“Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.”
“What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!”
Source: The Plays of Philip Massinger,: Advertisement to the second edition. Introduction; Essay on the writings of Massinger, by John Ferriar, &c. The virgin-martyr. The unnatural combat. The Duke of Milan
“The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge
“Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.”
Source: The plays of Philip Massinger: adapted for family reading, and the use of young persons, by the omission of objectionable passages
“I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.”
Source: The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger: The Duke of Milan, The Roman Actor, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam
“They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.”
Source: Elizabethan Drama II
Source: Beauties of Massinger
Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford
Source: The plays of Philip Massinger
“He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.”
“Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.”
Source: Dramatic works
“For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.”
Source: Introduction; Essay on the dramatick writings of Massinger, by John Ferriar; Commendatory verses on Massinger; A list of Massinger's plays; Glossarial index. The virgin-martyr. The unnatural combat. The Duke of Milan
“Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.”
Source: The Plays
“Black detraction will find faults where they are not.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger:
Source: The Plays
“One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.”
Source: The Plays
Source: The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence
“Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.”
“Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.”
“Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.”
Source: Beauties of Massinger
Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford
Source: The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford