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Top 25 Thomas Otway Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Otway Quote: “Oh 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.”

1. “Oh 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

Thomas Otway Quote: “Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”

2. “Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.”

3. “There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.”

4. “Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”

5. “Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”

6. “Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “And for an apple damn’d mankind.”

7. “And for an apple damn’d mankind.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.”

8. “The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”

9. “Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “Children blessings seem, but torments are.”

10. “Children blessings seem, but torments are.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.”

11. “No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.”

12. “False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.”

13. “Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.”

14. “You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.”

15. “Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.”

16. “Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “If love be treasure, we’ll be wondrous rich.”

17. “If love be treasure, we’ll be wondrous rich.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “Who’s a prince or beggar in the grave?”

18. “Who’s a prince or beggar in the grave?”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.”

19. “Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne’er asks the body counsel.”

20. “Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne’er asks the body counsel.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “And die with decency.”

21. “And die with decency.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!”

22. “I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “The poor sleep little.”

23. “The poor sleep little.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “No praying, it spoils business.”

24. “No praying, it spoils business.”

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Thomas Otway Quote: “Ere man’s corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin’d Obey’d the dictates of his godlike mind.”

25. “Ere man’s corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin’d Obey’d the dictates of his godlike mind.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll’d above their betters.”

26. “Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll’d above their betters.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.”

27. “Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill’d and damm’d up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.”

28. “Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill’d and damm’d up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.”

— Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway Quote: “Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.”

29. “Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.”

— Thomas Otway

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