"Words are but empty thanks." — Colley Cibber
"Words are but empty thanks."
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Colley Cibber
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19 Quotes by Colley Cibber
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Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
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We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a…
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Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
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The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
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Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I…
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A weak invention of the Enemy.
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Possession is eleven points in the law.
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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
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Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
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Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight?…
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Losers must have leave to speak.
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I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me,…
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness…
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never…
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than…
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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism…
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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of…
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
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