"Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow……" — Philip Massinger
"Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee."
—
Philip Massinger
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
30 Quotes by Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger has 30 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall…
-
My dancing days are past.
-
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
-
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
-
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
-
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all…
-
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn....
-
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
-
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
-
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.
-
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
-
Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.
See all 30 quotes by Philip Massinger »
More Art Quotes
This quote is filed under Art Quotes,
one of 14,657 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
-
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
-
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
-
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
-
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
-
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
-
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
-
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
-
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
See all 14,657 Art Quotes »