Top 30 Colley Cibber Quotes

#1. Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Colley Cibber

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#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

Colley Cibber Quotes #160801
#3. Colley Cibber, are apposite here: "It is not to the actor

Richard Eugene Burton

Colley Cibber Quotes #186505
#4. The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

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Colley Cibber Quotes #195939
#5. Stolen sweets are best.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #217803
#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

Colley Cibber Quotes #253015
#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

Colley Cibber Quotes #304234
#8. Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you.
[Love's Last Shift]

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #439894
#9. You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #498151
#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

Colley Cibber Quotes #501718
#11. The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #513085
#12. Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.

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Colley Cibber Quotes #588121
#13. We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #716709
#14. Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #785284
#15. Banish that fear; my flame can never waste,
For love sincere refines upon the taste.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #984279
#16. Thou strange piece of wild nature!

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #1050795
#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

Colley Cibber Quotes #1091179
#18. So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #1208751
#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

Colley Cibber Quotes #1214715
#20. Possession is eleven points in the law.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #1304235
#21. Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #1318246
#22. Losers must have leave to speak.

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Colley Cibber Quotes #1431726
#23. Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #1499304
#24. Words are but empty thanks.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #1537963
#25. A weak invention of the Enemy.

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Colley Cibber Quotes #1629821
#26. What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #1638925
#27. The happy have whole days,

Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quotes #1656012
#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

Colley Cibber Quotes #1663584
#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!

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Colley Cibber Quotes #1708156
#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.

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