34 Quotes by William Davenant

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

Ambition is the mind’s immodesty.

Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy, It is not safe to know.

Think not ambition wise, because ’t is brave.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam’d; For not to know we sinn’d is innocence.