93 Quotes by Philip Massinger

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

They are only safe That know to soothe the prince’s appetite, And serve his lusts.

Gold – the picklock that never fails.

I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what’s mine.