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16 Quotes for 'Colley Cibber' in the Database.
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Colley Cibber Quotes
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Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended.
Topic: Architecture
Source: Prologue to the Double Gallant (l. 15)
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Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light,
Which I must ne'er enjoy?
What are the blessings of the sight?
Oh, tell your poor blind boy!
Topic: Blindness
Source: The Blind Boy
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This business will never hold water.
Topic: Business
Source: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not (act IV)
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The will for the deed.
Topic: Deeds
Source: The Rival Fools (act III)
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A weak Invention of the Enemy.
Topic: Enemies
Source: Richard III (act V, sc. 3)
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The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome
Outlives, in fame, the pious fool that rais'd it.
Topic: Fame
Source: Richard III (act III, sc. 1)
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As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
Topic: Fashion
Source: Love's Last Shift (act II)
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Losers must have leave to speak.
Topic: Loss
Source: The Rival Fools (act I, l. 17)
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I've lately had two spiders
Crawling upon my startled hopes--
Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me,
Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes:
I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.
Topic: Spiders
Source: Richard III (act IV, sc. 2), (altered)
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Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.
Topic: Success
Source: Richard III (act III, sc. 1)
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Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.
Topic: Talk
Source: Parody of Pope's lines
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Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable
liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing,
heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious
insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall
prostrate.
Topic: Tea
Source: Lady's Last Stake (act I, sc. 1)
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Stolen sweets are best.
Topic: Theft
Source: None
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Stolen sweets are best.
Topic: Thieving
Source: Rival Fools (act I)
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So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love,
And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution
Told his soft Tale, and was a thriving Wooer.
Topic: Wooing
Source: Richard III (act II, sc. 1), (altered from Shakespeare)
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Words are but empty thanks.
Topic: Words
Source: Woman's Wit (act V)
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