Quote

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

Philip Massinger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Massinger
Age: 57 †
Born: 1583
Born: January 1
Died: 1640
Died: January 1
Dramatist
Playwright
Writer
Salisbury
England
Philip Massinger
Ambition
Private
Virtue
Men
Prince
Vice
Vices

More quotes by Philip Massinger

Image
Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.
Philip Massinger
Image
What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
Philip Massinger
Image
A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.
Philip Massinger
Image
Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
Philip Massinger
Image
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.
Philip Massinger
Image
Be wise soar not too high to fall but stoop to rise.
Philip Massinger
Image
Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
Philip Massinger
Image
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Philip Massinger
Image
Gold--the picklock that never fails.
Philip Massinger
Image
What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
Philip Massinger
Image
Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.
Philip Massinger
Image
He that knows no guilt can know no fear.
Philip Massinger
Image
Factions among yourselves preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.
Philip Massinger
Image
Malice scorned, puts out itself but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Philip Massinger
Image
To doubt is worse than to have lost And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Philip Massinger
Image
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.
Philip Massinger
Image
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
Philip Massinger
Image
Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
Philip Massinger
Image
And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.
Philip Massinger
Image
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
Philip Massinger