John Wilmot Quotes

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

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

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

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.

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

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

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

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

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

Man differs more from man than man from beast

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

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

Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit.

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.

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

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

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.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

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

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

Custom does often reason overrule.

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

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Late children are early orphans.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

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

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.

All men would be cowards if they durst.

How blest was the created stateOf man and woman, ere they fell, Compared to our unhappy fate:We need not fear another hell.

A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.