Thomas Otway Quotes

No, this vile world and I have long been jangling, And cannot part on better terms than now, When only men like thee are fit to live in’t.

The poor sleep little.

Give but an Englishman his whore and ease, Beef and a sea-coal fire, he’s yours forever.

Is the world Reform’d since our last meeting?

If love be treasure, we’ll be wondrous rich.

’Tis a ragged virtue.

Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll’d above their betters.

I’m thinking…how that damn’d starving quality Call’d honesty, got footing in the world.

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill’d and damm’d up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

May the hard hand of a vexatious need Oppress and grind you; till at last you find The curse of disobedience all your portion.

I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

And for an apple damn’d mankind.

You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

Ere man’s corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin’d Obey’d the dictates of his godlike mind.