Quotes by Philip Massinger

Philip Massinger

English dramatist

Lived from: 1583 - 1640

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

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• Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

  ― Philip Massinger
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• That you can speak so well, and do so ill!

  Source: The Fatal Dowry (1632) 1, 1

  ― Philip Massinger
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• To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

  ― Philip Massinger
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• True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

  ― Philip Massinger
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• Virtue, if not in action, is a vice.

  Source: The Maid of Honour (1632) 1, 1

  ― Philip Massinger
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• Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

  ― Philip Massinger
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Subjects in these quotes:

• withdrawn
• antedate
• miseries
• patience
• gained
• honors

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