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Susanna Centlivre Quotes

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

Susanna Centlivre
Courage, Ships, Sinking
Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.357

Want is the mistress of invention

Susanna Centlivre
Mistress, Want, Invention
Susanna Centlivre (1746). “The Busie Body. A comedy ... The fifth edition”, p.9

A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.

Susanna Centlivre
Men, Thinking, Unhappy
Susanna Centlivre (1872). “Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot. Platonick lady. Perplex'd lovers. Cruel gift”, p.63

All policies allowed in war and love.

Susanna Centlivre
War, And Love, Policy

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

Susanna Centlivre
Reputation, Ill

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

Susanna Centlivre
Cheating, Men, Way
"The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice".

Lying is a thriving Vocation.

Susanna Centlivre
Lying, Vocation
Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: The life of the author. Perjur'd husband. Beaux's duel. Gamester. Basset table. Love at a venture. Stolen heiress”, p.159

my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

Susanna Centlivre
Doctors, Three, Months
Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.97

I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.

Susanna Centlivre
Philosophy, Past, Care
John Dryden, Susanna Centlivre, George Farquhar, Robert Howard (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. AMPHITRION. By John Dryden, Esq. ; BUSY BODY. By Mrs. Centlivre ; BOLD STROKE for a WIFE. By ditto ; BEAUX STRATAGEM. By Mr. Farquhar ; COMMITTEE. By Sir R. Howard”, p.69

Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

Susanna Centlivre
Honesty, Trying, Boast
Susanna Centlivre (1760). “The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre ...: Love's contrivance. Busy body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic lady. Perplexed lovers. Cruel gift”, p.282

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

Susanna Centlivre
Age, Youth, Pleasure
Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The perjur'd husband. The beau's duel. The gamester. The basset-table. Love at a venture. The stolen heiress”, p.205

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

Susanna Centlivre
Names, Noble, Refined

TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.

Susanna Centlivre
Women, Light, Yesterday

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

Susanna Centlivre
Age, Vices, Lashes
Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre: The wonder. The man bewitch'd Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.79

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