Philip Massinger's Quotes

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

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

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.