62 Quotes by Roger L'Estrange

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.