Philip Massinger Quotes
An English dramatist.
(1583 - 1640)
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0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.
[Friendship]
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
[Ambition]
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As the index tells the contents of the book, and directs to the particular chapter, even so do the outward habit and garments, in man or woman, give us a taste of the spirit, and point to the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident and gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dung-hilly blood and breeding, than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.
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Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
[Humility]
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Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and that it is which crowns a welcome.
[Cheerfulness]
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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
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For any man to match above his rank, is but to sell his liberty.
[Marriage]
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Happy those who knowing they are subject to uncertain changes, are prepared and armed for either fortune; a rare principle, and with much labor learned in wisdom's school.
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He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
[Suicide]
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He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful.
[Ingratitude]
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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself, richly endued with depth of understanding and height of knowledge.
[Government]
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How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! When it speaks it ravishes all senses.
[Voice]
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I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
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I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe the bosom of a friend would hold a secret mine own could not contain.
[Secrecy]
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I know the sum of all that makes a man - a just man - happy, consists in the well choosing of his wife; and then well to discharge it, does require equality of years, of birth, of fortune.
[Marriage]
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Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.
[Imitation]
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Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
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Like virgin parchment, capable of any inscription.
[Youth]
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Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
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