Thomas Otway Quotes
1652–1685 England
Thomas Otway (March 3, 1652 – April 14, 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period.
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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
The Orphan (1680)
Give but an Englishman his whore and ease,
Beef and a sea-coal fire, he's yours forever.
Venice Preserv'd (1682)
Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life;
Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o’er thee.
Venice Preserv'd (1682)
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
Who can describe
Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.
The Orphan (1680)
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.
Venice Preserv'd (1682)
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!
The Orphan (1680)