93 Quotes by Philip Massinger

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn...

Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.

He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful.

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man’s awe.

Greatness, with private men Esteem’d a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

Such as ne’er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

I have play’d the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

But married once, a man is stak’d or pown’d, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

What pity ’tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!