Colley Cibber citáty

Colley Cibber, také Cooley Cibber byl britský herec, divadelní režisér, impresário, dramatik a básník. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. listopad 1671 – 11. prosinec 1757
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“A weak invention of the enemy.”

Colley Cibber Richard III

Act V, scene 3. Similar thought in William Shakespeare, King Richard III.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“This business will never hold water.”

She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, Act IV (1703).

“Words are but empty thanks.”

Woman's Wit, Act V (1697).

“Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!”

The Double Gallant, Act I, sc. ii (1707).

“The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome
Outlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.”

Colley Cibber Richard III

Act III, scene 1. Similar thought by Sir Thomas Browne.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“Possession is eleven points in the law.”

Woman's Wit, Act I (1697).

“We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.”

Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift

Love's Last Shift, Act IV (1696). Compare: "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd", William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III, scene viii (often paraphrased: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned").

“Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.”

Colley Cibber Richard III

Act III, scene 1.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“I don't see it.”

The Careless Husband (1704), Act ii, scene 2.

“And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.”

Colley Cibber Richard III

Act V, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”

Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift

Love's Last Shift, Act II, sc. i (1696).

“With clink of hammers closing rivets up.”

Colley Cibber Richard III

Act V, scene 3. Similar thought in William Shakespeare, King Henry V.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,
And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.”

A parody on Pope's lines: "Graced as thou art with all the power of words, / So known, so honoured at the House of Lords"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Losers must have leave to speak.”

Act I.
The Rival Fools (1709)

“Off with his head—; so much for Buckingham.”

Colley Cibber Richard III

Act IV, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)

“The will for the deed.”

Act III.
The Rival Fools (1709)

“Within one of her.”

Act V.
The Rival Fools (1709)

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