Richard Savage



Richard Savage (c. 1697 – August 1, 1743) was an English poet.

Quotes

 * Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear! Oaths are of dreadful Weight—and, if they're false, Draw down Damnation.
 * Sir Thomas Overbury (1724), Act II, scene i.


 * When Anger rushes, unrestrain'd, to Action, Like a hot Steed, it stumbles in its way! The Man of Thought wounds deepest, and strikes safely.
 * Sir Thomas Overbury (1724), Act II, scene i.


 * He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
 * The Bastard (1728), line 7, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
 * Character of Foster, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame", Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, line 158.