Top 25 Quotes by John Wilmot of 38

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

Teaching, Love Life, Forgiving

"Fictional character: Rochester". "The Libertine", www.imdb.com. 2004.

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

John Wilmot

Interesting, Mind, World

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

John Wilmot

Heat, Chemistry, Equal

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

John Wilmot

Funny, Leadership, Children

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

John Wilmot

Passion, Envy, Shame

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

John Wilmot

Interest In Life, Expenses, Libertine

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

John Wilmot

Wise, Kings, Promise

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

All men would be cowards if they could.

John Wilmot

Men, Coward, Would Be

'A Satire Against Mankind' (1679) l. 158

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

John Wilmot

Dog, Animal, Proud

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.23, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

John Wilmot

Broken, Lovers, Fainting

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

John Wilmot

Lust, Natural, Rochester

'A Ramble in St James' Park'

Man differs more from man than man from beast

John Wilmot

Men, Beast, Rochester

John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.103, Taylor & Francis

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

John Wilmot

Law, Strange, Constancy

John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.53, Taylor & Francis

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

John Wilmot

Lying, Men, Self

John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.102, Taylor & Francis

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

John Wilmot

Sarcastic, Wise, Foolish

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

John Wilmot

Drug, Theatre, Quality

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

John Wilmot

Men, World, Very Good

Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit.

John Wilmot

Women, Drinking, Farewell

John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.73, Taylor & Francis

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

John Wilmot

Excellence, Taste, Faults

John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find

John Wilmot

Passion, Mind, Innocence

John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.11, Taylor & Francis

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

John Wilmot

Kindness, Greatness, Men

John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.61, Taylor & Francis

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

John Wilmot

Wish, Theater, Libertine

"Fictional character: Rochester". "The Libertine", www.imdb.com. 2004.

Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise.

John Wilmot

Wise, Drinking, Blow

John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.112, Taylor & Francis

For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door, Are senseless stories, idle tales, Dreams, whimseys, and no more.

John Wilmot

Dream, Dog, Doors

John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.126, Taylor & Francis