"No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live……" — Thomas Otway
"No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal."
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Thomas Otway
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13 Quotes by Thomas Otway
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
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Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
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No praying, it spoils business.
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Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair…
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
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Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.
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There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life…
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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
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If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my…
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