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Thomas Otway quotes: O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

Thomas Otway quotes: Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Thomas Otway quotes: If we must part forever,Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon
and please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

Thomas Otway quotes: If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

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

Thomas Otway quotes: I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

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

Thomas Otway quotes: And die with decency.

And die with decency.

Thomas Otway quotes: Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Thomas Otway quotes: 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.

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.

Thomas Otway quotes: The poor sleep little.

The poor sleep little.

Thomas Otway quotes: Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

Thomas Otway quotes: False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Thomas Otway quotes: Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

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

Thomas Otway quotes: 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.

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.

Thomas Otway quotes: Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

Thomas Otway quotes: And for an apple damn'd mankind.

And for an apple damn'd mankind.

Thomas Otway quotes: Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Thomas Otway quotes: Children blessings seem, but torments are.

Children blessings seem, but torments are.

Thomas Otway quotes: Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

Thomas Otway quotes: Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Thomas Otway quotes: There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.

There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.

Thomas Otway quotes: Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

Thomas Otway quotes: Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

Thomas Otway quotes: Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Thomas Otway quotes: Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

Thomas Otway quotes: Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

Thomas Otway quotes: The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

Thomas Otway quotes: Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Otway quotes: You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

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

Thomas Otway quotes: Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.