83 Quotes by John Wilmot

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

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

All men would be cowards if they could.

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

Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise.

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

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

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

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