John Oldham (poet)

John Oldham (August 9, 1653 – December 9, 1683) was an English satirical poet and translator.

Quotes

 * Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate, By every breach in that fair lodging made, Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.
 * To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 106; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).


 * And should you visit now the seats of bliss, You need not wear another form but this.
 * To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 116; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).


 * Curse on the man who business first designed, And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!
 * Complaining of Absence, 11; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).


 * While some no other cause for life can give But a dull habitude to live.
 * To the Memory of Norwent, Paragraph 5; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).


 * Ah, dearer than my soul… Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
 * Lament for Saul and Jonathan; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).


 * I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.
 * Satire upon a Printer, line 36; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).


 * Lord of myself, accountable to none, But to my conscience, and my God alone.
 * Satire addressed to a Friend, line 36; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).