No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and… — Thomas Otway Art Copy Share Image
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. — Thomas Otway Brutes Copy Share Image
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. — Thomas Otway Embrace Copy Share Image
There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine… — Thomas Otway Arms Copy Share Image
If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's… — Thomas Otway Break up Copy Share Image
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. — Thomas Otway Fetters Copy Share Image
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to. — Thomas Otway Hate Copy Share Image
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look… — Thomas Otway Angel Copy Share Image
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. — Thomas Otway Ambition Copy Share Image
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me! — Thomas Otway May Copy Share Image
Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in… — Thomas Otway Cheat Copy Share Image
How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even… — Thomas Otway Bees Copy Share Image
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads. — Thomas Otway Blockheads Copy Share Image
Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as… — Thomas Otway Creditors Copy Share Image
Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and… — Thomas Otway Born Copy Share Image
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. — Thomas Otway Certain Copy Share Image
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. — Thomas Otway Easy Copy Share Image
