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Top 15 Colley Cibber Quotes (2025 Update)

Colley Cibber Quote: “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!”

1. “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 Quote: “We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.”

2. “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 Quote: “Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they’re ended.”

3. “Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they’re ended.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.”

5. “Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “Possession is eleven points in the law.”

6. “Possession is eleven points in the law.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “Stolen sweets are best.”

7. “Stolen sweets are best.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.”

8. “The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “Words are but empty thanks.”

10. “Words are but empty thanks.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “So mourn’d the dame of Ephesus her love.”

11. “So mourn’d the dame of Ephesus her love.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais’d it.”

12. “The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais’d it.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “Losers must have leave to speak.”

13. “Losers must have leave to speak.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.”

14. “You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.”

15. “Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”

16. “Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”

— Colley Cibber

Colley Cibber Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “A weak invention of the Enemy.”

18. “A weak invention of the Enemy.”

— Colley Cibber

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