Colley Cibber Citas

• Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

  Colley Cibber

  Running, Food, Fall

  Colley Cibber (1777). “The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second”, p.211

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• Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

  Colley Cibber

  Good Man, Screw You, Compass

  Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.49

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• Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

  Colley Cibber

  Party, House, Cost

  Colley Cibber (1761). “The double gallant: or, The sick lady's cure”, p.7

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• The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

  Colley Cibber

  Happiness, Unhappy, Hours

  Colley Cibber (1777). “The double gallant; Ximena; the comical lovers; The non-juror”, p.83

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• Stolen sweets are best.

  Colley Cibber

  Sweet, Stolen

  'The Rival Fools' (1709) act 1, sc. 1

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• Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please.

  Colley Cibber

  Firsts, Steps, Please

  Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “The refusal; The provoked husband; Love in a riddle; Perolla and Izadora; Rival queans”, p.238

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• ¡Oh! Cuántos tormentos yacen en el pequeño círculo de un anillo de bodas.

  Colley Cibber

  Matrimonio, Boda, Mentir

  'The Double Gallant' (1707) act 1, sc. 2

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• The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames;
  Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves.
  When eagles are in view, the screaming doves
  Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.

  Colley Cibber

  Fear, Men, Feet

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

  Colley Cibber

  Anger, Hell, Fury

  Colley Cibber (1725). “Love's Last Shift; or, the Fool in fashion. A comedy, etc”, p.49

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• Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

  Colley Cibber

  Earth, Faces, Wit

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• Últimamente he tenido dos arañas que se arrastraban sobre mis esperanzas sobresaltadas... Ahora, aunque tu mano amiga las ha apartado de mí, todavía se arrastran ofensivas a mis ojos: Quisiera que algún buen amigo las pisoteara.

  Colley Cibber

  Eye, Hands, Two

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• Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

  Colley Cibber

  Pain, Past, Bliss

  Colley Cibber (1754). “The Dramatick Works of Colley Cibber, Esq; ... in Four Volumes. ...”

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• When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.

  Colley Cibber

  Real, Vanity, People

  Colley Cibber (1830). “An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian”, p.27

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• Words are but empty thanks.

  Colley Cibber

  Thanks, Empty

  Colley Cibber (2001). “The Plays of Colley Cibber”, p.226, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• El joven aspirante que encendió la cúpula de Éfeso, sobrevive en fama al piadoso necio que la levantó.

  Colley Cibber

  Ephesians, Fool, Youth

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• Losers must have leave to speak.

  Colley Cibber

  Loss, Loser, Speak

  Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.102

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• Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!

  Colley Cibber

  Blessing, Boys, Light

  Colley Cibber, “The Blind Boy”

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• The happy have whole days.

  Colley Cibber

  Happy, Whole

  Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “The double gallant; Ximena; the comical lovers; The non-juror”, p.83

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• La posesión es once puntos en la ley.

  Colley Cibber

  Law, Eleven, Possession

  Colley Cibber, Charles Bathurst (1777). “Love's last shift; Woman's wit; Love makes a man; She would and she would not”, p.121

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• You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

  Colley Cibber

  Fashion, World, Fashionable

  'Love's Last Shift' (1696) act 2

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• Banish that fear; my flame can never waste,
  For love sincere refines upon the taste.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Flames, Taste

  Joseph Addison, Robert Jephson, David Garrick, George Farquhar, Colley Cibber (1815). “Cato. A Tragedy”

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• What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
  To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Done, Crime

  Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.334

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• Then let not what I cannot have
  My cheer of mind destroy.
  Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,
  Although a poor blind boy!

  Colley Cibber

  Kings, Cheer, Boys

  Colley Cibber, “The Blind Boy”

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• A weak invention of the Enemy.

  Colley Cibber

  Enemy, Weak, Invention

  Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.53

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• Así lloró la dama de Éfeso su amor.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Love Life, Dames

  Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.11

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