34 Quotes by William Davenant

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.

O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.