“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.”
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Famous Thomas Otway Quotes
Source: The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy
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.”
“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
“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes
“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”