Source: The Orphan: Or the Unhappy Marriage
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Famous Thomas Otway Quotes
“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.”
“Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.”
Source: Venice Preserved: A Tragedy in Five Acts ...
“I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!”
Source: Tamerlane. A Tragedy
Source: The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy
“Children blessings seem, but torments are.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Otway
Source: The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre
“False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.”
Source: And so to the playhouse
“Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, in Two Volumes
“Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?”
Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes
“Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.”
“The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.”
Source: Tragedy of the Distrest Mother Transl. from the Andromaque of Racine, with the Life of the Author by Johnson and a Critique by Richard Cumberland
“Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes
“Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.”
Source: The Orphan: Or, The Unhappy Marriage : a Tragedy, as it is Acted at the Theatres Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden
Source: The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters
Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes
“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”
“Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.”
Source: A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.
“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes
“Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.”
“Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”
Source: A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.
“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
“Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.”
Source: Tamerlane. A Tragedy