Quotes by Philip Massinger

About Philip Massinger:

Philip Massinger was an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes.
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Philip Massinger

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Philip Massinger

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

Philip Massinger

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

Philip Massinger

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Philip Massinger

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Philip Massinger

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Philip Massinger

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

Philip Massinger

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Philip Massinger

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

Philip Massinger

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Philip Massinger

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

Philip Massinger

Author Bio

  • NamePhilip Massinger
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • Born1583
  • DiedMarch 17, 1640
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Writer