Edward Moore

Edward Moore (March 22, 1712 – March 1, 1757) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister, born at Abingdon, Berkshire.

Quotes

 * Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
 * "Song x" (c. 1750s), St. 4; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797), p. 172

And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
 * But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
 * "Song xii" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797), p. 174.

Fables for the Female Sex (1744)

 * Fables for the Female Sex (London: R. Francklin, 1744)


 * Can’t I another’s face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lours, As if her merit lessen’d yours?
 * Fable ix: "The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat", p. 55.


 * The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate’er the Grecian Venus was.
 * Fable x: "The Spider and the Bee", p. 62.


 * But from the hoop’s bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
 * Fable x: "The Spider and the Bee", p. 63.

The Gamester (1753)

 * I'll tell thee what it [the world] says: it calls me a villain: a treacherous husband; a cruel father; a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or, to say all in one short word, it calls me—gamester.
 * Act ii, Sc. 1.


 * I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
 * Act ii. Sc. 2.
 * Compare: "The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice", Samuel Johnson, in Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. Chap. ii.


 * ’Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
 * Act iii. Sc. 4.

Misattributed

 * Labour for his pains.
 * Attributed to Moore in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and elsewhere, but actually from William Wilkie's "The Boy and the Rainbow", line 78, in his book Fables (London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768), p. 45.
 * Compare: "I have had my labour for my travail", William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act i., Sc. !.