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Philip Massinger
18 quotes
“The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1615 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Law (c. 1615–18; printed 1656), with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1619 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Very Woman (1619), Act v. Sc. 4. Compare: "Death hath so many doors to let out life", Beaumont and Fletcher, The Custom of the Country, act ii. sc. 2; "The thousand doors that lead to death", Sir Thomas Browne, Religi…
“Virtue, if not in action, is a vice, And, when we move not forward, we go backward.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act I, scene i
“What a sea Of melting ice I walk on!”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act III, scene iii
“He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it, And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour. This life's a fort committed to my trust, Which I must not yield up till it be forc'd. —Nor will I. He's not valiant that dares die, But he that boldly bears calamity.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1621 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act IV, scene iii
“Out, you impostors! Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1622 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1622), Act IV, scene i
“Be wise; Soar not too high, to fall; but stoop to rise.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1623 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Duke of Milan (1623), Act I, scene ii
“To doubt Is worse than to have lost; and to despair Is but to antedate those miseries That must fall on us.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1623 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Duke of Milan (1623), Act I, scene iii
“The oath in any way or form you please, I stand resolv'd to take it.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1623 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Duke of Milan (1623), Act I, scene iii
“He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1623 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bondman (1623), Act I, scene iii
“What a bridge Of glass I walk upon, over a river Of certain ruin! Mine own weighty fears Cracking what should support me:—And those helps, Which confidence yields to others, are from me Ravish'd by doubts, and wilful jealousy.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1623 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bondman (1623), Act IV, scene iii
“Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of it; and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, Will not be drawn.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1605 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A New Way to pay Old Debts (1625), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "From thousands of our undone widows / One may derive some wit", Thomas Middleton, A Trick to catch the Old One (1605), Act i, Scene 2
“Cause me no causes.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1625 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1625), act i. sc. 3. See X me no X's
“This many-headed monster, The giddy multitude.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1626 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Roman Actor (1626), Act iii. Sc. 2. Compare: "Many-headed multitude", Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesy, Book ii; "Many-headed multitude", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act ii, scene 3; "This many-headed monste…
“But in our Sanazarro 'tis not so, He being pure and tried gold; and any stamp Of grace, to make him current to the world, The duke is pleased to give him, will add honour To the great bestower; for he, though allow'd Companion to his master, still preserves His majesty in full lustre.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1627 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Great Duke of Florence (1627), Act I, scene 1
“Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1627 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Great Duke of Florence (1627)
“Quiet night that brings Rest to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended, dares not sleep.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) first seen 1633 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian (1633), Act II, scene iv
“This many-headed monster.”
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) said by 1640 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source