Quote: True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Let us love temperately, things violent last not. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
Mine own could not contain. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: 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 forced:
Nor will I. He's not valiant that dares die,
But he that boldly bears calamity. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: If you like not hanging, drown yourself;
Take some course for your reputation. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman!
It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,
It ravishes all senses. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: You may boldly say, you did not plough
Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands
With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: We, that would be known
The father of our people, in our study,
And vigilance for their safety, must not change
Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from
The secure shade of their own vines, to be
Scorched with the flames of war. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: What a fine man
Hath your tailor made you! [Philip Massinger]
Quote: As if thou e'er wert angry
But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred
Can bring more to the making up of a man,
Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature;
And did he not, each morning, new create thee,
Thou'dst stink and be forgotten. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Get me some French tailor
To new-create you. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Yes, if they would thank their maker,
And seek no further, but they have new creators,
God tailor and god mercer. [Philip Massinger]
Quote: Out, you impostors!
Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. [Philip Massinger]