WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:53:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Otway, Thomas – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Otway, Thomas -- The History and Fall of Caius Marius, Act 5, sc. 4 (1680) https://wist.info/otway-thomas/38107/ https://wist.info/otway-thomas/38107/#respond Thu, 19 Oct 2017 05:48:43 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38107 Ambition is a Lust that’s never quench’d,
Grows more inflam’d and madder by Enjoyment.


Thomas Otway (1652–1685) English dramatist
The History and Fall of Caius Marius, Act 5, sc. 4 (1680) ]]> https://wist.info/otway-thomas/38107/feed/ 0 38107 Otway, Thomas -- Venice Preserv’d, Act 1, sc. 1 (1682) https://wist.info/otway-thomas/38153/ https://wist.info/otway-thomas/38153/#respond Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:03:33 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38153 O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There’s in you all that we believe of heaven, —
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.


Thomas Otway (1652–1685) English dramatist
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