40 Quotes by Colley Cibber

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and adore thee.

Off with his head - so much for Buckingham.

One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

Oh, say! what is that thing call’d light, Which I must ne’er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they’re ended.