Philip Massinger quotes

Philip Massinger was an English playwright renowned for his contributions to Jacobean and Caroline drama. His works are characterized by their complex plots and social and political themes. He influenced the development of English theatre and is remembered for plays such as "A New Way to Pay Old Debts." Here are 23 of his quotes:

Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop, to rise.

Philip Massinger

To doubt Is worse than to have lost; and to despair Is but to antedate those miseries That must fall on us.

Philip Massinger

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

Philip Massinger

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Philip Massinger

What a sea Of melting ice I walk on!

Philip Massinger

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

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.

Philip Massinger

This many-headed monster, The giddy multitude.

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.

Philip Massinger

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Philip Massinger

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Philip Massinger

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Philip Massinger

Cause me no causes.

Philip Massinger

Virtue, if not in action, is a vice, And, when we move not forward, we go backward.

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.

Philip Massinger

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

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.

Philip Massinger

Out, you impostors! Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.

Philip Massinger

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Philip Massinger

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

Philip Massinger