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20 Quotes for 'Philip Massinger' in the Database.
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Philip Massinger Quotes
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This many-headed monster.
Topic: Acting
Source: Roman Actor (act III, sc. 4)
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This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.
Topic: Acting
Source: Roman Actor (act III, sc. 4)
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
Topic: All About the Self
Source: None
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Topic: Dignity
Source: None
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You may boldly say, you did not plough
Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands
With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
Topic: Failure
Source: The Renegado
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What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
Topic: Innocence
Source: Maid of Honor (act V, sc. 2)
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Ill news, madam,
Are swallow-winged, but what's good
Walks on crutches.
Topic: News
Source: Picture (act II, 1)
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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
Topic: News
Source: Picture (act II, 1)
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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.
Topic: Patriotism
Source: The Maid of Honour (act I, 1)
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Out, you impostors!
Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
Topic: Quackery
Source: Virgin-Martyr (act IV, sc. 1)
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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.
Topic: Secrecy
Source: Unnatural Combat (act V, sc. 2)
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Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
Topic: Sin
Source: The Picture (act IV, sc. 2)
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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.
Topic: Suicide
Source: Maid of Honour (act IV, sc. 3)
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If you like not hanging, drown yourself;
Take some course for your reputation.
Topic: Suicide
Source: New Way to pay Old Debts (act II, sc. 1)
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What a fine man
Hath your tailor made you!
Topic: Tailors
Source: City Madam (act I, sc. 2)
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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.
Topic: Tailors
Source: Fatal Dowry (act III, sc. 1)
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Get me some French tailor
To new-create you.
Topic: Tailors
Source: Renegade (act III, sc. 1)
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Yes, if they would thank their maker,
And seek no further, but they have new creators,
God tailor and god mercer.
Topic: Tailors
Source: A Very Woman (act III, sc. 1, l. 161)
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How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman!
It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,
It ravishes all senses.
Topic: Voice
Source: The Old Law (act IV, sc. 2, l. 34)
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