Thomas Otway quotes

" Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. " # Ambition # Freedom # Power

" Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. " # Honesty # Age and Aging # Fools and Foolishness

" Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. " # Time and Time Management

" Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em. " # Cries and Crying # Love # Tears

" O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you: There ’s in you all that we believe of heaven,— Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love. " # Love # Truth # Friends and Friendship

" Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o’er thee. " # Love # Marriage # Kindness

" And die with decency. " # Death and Dying

" What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was ’t betrayed the Capitol?—A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world?—A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years’ war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman! " # Politics # War # Love

" Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. 3 " # Vow # Misers and Misery # Love