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
Prince
Vice
Vices
Ambition
Private
Virtue
Men

More quotes by 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
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful
Philip Massinger
Image
It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.
Philip Massinger
Image
Malice scorned, puts out itself but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
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
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.
Philip Massinger
Image
What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
Philip Massinger
Image
He that knows no guilt can know no fear.
Philip Massinger
Image
They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
Philip Massinger
Image
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.
Philip Massinger
Image
Gold--the picklock that never fails.
Philip Massinger
Image
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
Philip Massinger
Image
Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
Philip Massinger
Image
The over curious are not over wise.
Philip Massinger
Image
Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance-- Be often kissed and tasted.
Philip Massinger
Image
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Philip Massinger
Image
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.
Philip Massinger
Image
Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.
Philip Massinger
Image
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
Philip Massinger
Image
Nay, droop not, fellows innocence should be bold.
Philip Massinger