Philip Massinger Quotes

"Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Virtue, Ambition, Man, Vice)

"Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise."
- Philip Massinger

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Death)

"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Calamity)

"He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: First)

"I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Time)

"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Dignity)

"Many good purposes lie in the churchyard."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Lie)

"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Despair, Doubt)

"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Virtue, Patience)

"Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation."
- Philip Massinger
(Related: Credit, Malice)