Top 30 Colley Cibber Quotes
#1. Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber
#2. When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.
Colley Cibber
#4. The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
Colley Cibber
#6. Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity,
I owe the happiest moments of my life,
let me fall prostrate.
Colley Cibber
#7. The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames;
Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves.
When eagles are in view, the screaming doves
Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.
Colley Cibber
#8. Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you.
[Love's Last Shift]
Colley Cibber
#9. You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
Colley Cibber
#10. 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.
Colley Cibber
#11. The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
Colley Cibber
#12. Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.
Colley Cibber
#13. We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
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#14. Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
Colley Cibber
#15. Banish that fear; my flame can never waste,
For love sincere refines upon the taste.
Colley Cibber
#17. Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
Colley Cibber
#19. I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
James Joyce
#21. Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
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#23. Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!
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#26. What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.
Colley Cibber
#28. 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!
Colley Cibber
#29. Then let not what I cannot have
My cheer of mind destroy.
Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,
Although a poor blind boy!
Colley Cibber
#30. It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Colley Cibber
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