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Thomas Otway
6 quotes
“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.”
Thomas Otway (1652–1685) first seen 1682 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act i. Sc. 1.
“Give but an Englishman his whore and ease, Beef and a sea-coal fire, he's yours forever.”
Thomas Otway (1652–1685) first seen 1682 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act ii. Sc. 3.
“Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o’er thee.”
Thomas Otway (1652–1685) first seen 1682 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart", Thomas Gray, The Bard, part i. stanza 3.
“And die with decency.”
Thomas Otway (1652–1685) first seen 1682 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act v. Sc. 3.
“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!”
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Recorded in: The Orphan (1680), Act iii. Sc. 1. Compare: "O woman, woman! when to ill thy mind/ Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend", Alexander Pope, Homer’s Odyssey, book xi., line 531.
“Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”
Thomas Otway (1652–1685) first seen 1680 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Orphan (1680), Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Let us swear an eternal friendship", John Hookham Frere, The Rovers, act i. sc. 1.