Philip Massinger quotes

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. (Philip Massinger)
Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop, to rise. View quote
Philip Massinger
To doubt Is worse than to have lost; and to despair Is but to antedate those miseries That must fall on us. View quote
Philip Massinger
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. View quote
Philip Massinger
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. View quote
Philip Massinger
What a sea Of melting ice I walk on! View quote
Philip Massinger
The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe. View quote
Philip Massinger
Quiet night that brings Rest to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended, dares not sleep. View quote
Philip Massinger
This many-headed monster, The giddy multitude. View quote
Philip Massinger
Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of it; and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, Will not be drawn. View quote
Philip Massinger
But in our Sanazarro 'tis not so, He being pure and tried gold; and any stamp Of grace, to make him current to the world, The duke is pleased to give him, will add honour To the great bestower; for he, though allow'd Companion to his master, still preserves His majesty in full lustre. (Philip Massinger)
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. View quote
Philip Massinger
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. View quote
Philip Massinger
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity. View quote
Philip Massinger
Cause me no causes. View quote
Philip Massinger
Virtue, if not in action, is a vice, And, when we move not forward, we go backward. View quote
Philip Massinger
What a bridge Of glass I walk upon, over a river Of certain ruin! Mine own weighty fears Cracking what should support me: And those helps, Which confidence yields to others, are from me Ravish'd by doubts, and wilful jealousy. View quote
Philip Massinger
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. View quote
Philip Massinger
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 forc'd. -Nor will I. He's not valiant that dares die, But he that boldly bears calamity. View quote
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Out, you impostors! Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. View quote
Philip Massinger
The oath in any way or form you please, I stand resolv'd to take it. (Philip Massinger)
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. View quote
Philip Massinger
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours. View quote
Philip Massinger