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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"By magic numbers and persuasive sound."
The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
The Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 8.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds."
The Mourning Bride. Act v. Sc. 12.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me."
The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude."
Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar."
Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days."
The Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure."
The Old Bachelor. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise."
Letter to Cobham.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain