83 Quotes by John Wilmot

Custom does often reason overrule.

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

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.

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

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

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

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.