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I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. - Love for Love (act I, sc. 1) [Wit] Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day. - Love for Love (act I, sc. 1) [Proverbs] To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself. - Love for Love (act I, sc. 2), "Losing Loadum" is an old game which one plays to lose tricks [Scandal] I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar. - Love for Love (act II, sc. 1) [Ancestry] Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. - Love for Love (act II, sc. 1) [Wives] What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals? - Love for Love (act II, sc. 1) [Pelicans] By magic numbers and persuasive sound. - Mourning Bride (act I, sc. 1) [Sound] For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. - Mourning Bride (act V, sc. 3) [Blessings] I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. - Old Bachelor (act II, 2) [Stupidity] Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, And, as with living souls, have been inform'd, By magic numbers and persuasive sound. - The Mourning Bride (act I, sc. 1) [Music] Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. - The Mourning Bride (act III, sc. 8) [Anger : Proverbs : Women] Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Marry'd in haste, we may repent at leisure. - The Old Bachelor (act V, sc. 1) [Matrimony] Beauty is the lover's gift. - The Way of the World (act II, sc. 2) [Beauty] There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. - The Way of the World (epilogue) [Criticism] Who pleases one against his will. - The Way of the World--Epilogue [Pleasure] Say what you will, 'tis better to be left Than never to have loved. - Way of the World (act II, sc. 1) [Love] If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see The heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. - Way of the World (act III, sc. 3) [Love] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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