83 Quotes by John Wilmot

And ever since the Conquest have been fools.

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

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

Love’s chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense.