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Top 25 John Wilmot Quotes (2025 Update)

John Wilmot Quote: “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”

1. “Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”

— John Wilmot

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John Wilmot Quote: “Since ’tis Nature’s law to change, Constancy alone is strange.”

2. “Since ’tis Nature’s law to change, Constancy alone is strange.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “I’d be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.”

3. “I’d be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.”

4. “God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Love’s chemistry thrives best in equal heat.”

5. “Love’s chemistry thrives best in equal heat.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.”

6. “I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Born to myself, I like myself alone.”

7. “Born to myself, I like myself alone.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Natural freedoms are but just: There’s something generous in mere lust.”

8. “Natural freedoms are but just: There’s something generous in mere lust.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.”

9. “He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.”

10. “The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Angels listen when she speaks; She’s my delight, all mankind’s wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.”

11. “Angels listen when she speaks; She’s my delight, all mankind’s wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Late children are early orphans.”

12. “Late children are early orphans.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch – the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”

13. “Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch – the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”

14. “I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Man differs more from man than man from beast.”

15. “Man differs more from man than man from beast.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.”

16. “Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man’s own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.”

17. “It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man’s own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.”

18. “Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.”

19. “The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Custom does often reason overrule.”

20. “Custom does often reason overrule.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense.”

21. “Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Dead we become the lumber of the world.”

22. “Dead we become the lumber of the world.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.”

23. “Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.”

24. “I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “All men would be cowards if they could.”

25. “All men would be cowards if they could.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.”

26. “To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.”

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quote: “Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.”

27. “Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.”

— John Wilmot

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