Top 42 Colley Quotes
#1. 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
#3. An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of excitement into many normally quiet and deeply repetitive female lives.
Linda Colley
#4. 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
#5. Banish that fear; my flame can never waste,
For love sincere refines upon the taste.
Colley Cibber
#6. Sometimes, life can seem very uncertain. No matter what, find the source that keeps you strong and keep in alignment with that source. Don't be swayed or dismayed with the uncertainties, instead, be firm with that which you are certain of.
Eveth N Colley
#8. At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.
Linda Colley
#9. 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
#10. A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.
Linda Colley
#12. Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?
Linda Colley
#14. Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Colley Cibber
#16. Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!
Colley Cibber
#19. What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.
Colley Cibber
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.
Linda Colley
#24. Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber
#25. 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
#26. The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
Colley Cibber
#28. Strange, awkwardly written, and even shocking, it broke new ground in more than geographical and observational terms.
Linda Colley
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you.
[Love's Last Shift]
Colley Cibber
#32. You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
Colley Cibber
#33. Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.
Linda Colley
#34. 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
#35. The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
Colley Cibber
#36. Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.
Colley Cibber
#37. Practice increasing your time spent counting your blessings versus complaining.
Eveth N Colley
#38. We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Colley Cibber
#39. Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
Colley Cibber
#40. So there are many things outside of your control. Why not create positive control over the other things and add greater value to those?
Eveth N Colley
#41. In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.
Linda Colley
#42. Life is a gift and it is what you make it. Yet, it does have many twist and turns, many lows as well as high moments.
Keep the fire of hope alive, even in the darkest of time.
Eveth N Colley
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