Thomas Otway



Thomas Otway (March 3, 1652 – April 14, 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period.

Quotes

 * O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you: There ’s in you all that we believe of heaven,— Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
 * Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act i. Sc. 1.


 * Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o’er thee.
 * Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart", Thomas Gray, The Bard, part i. stanza 3.


 * And die with decency.
 * Venice Preserv'd (1682), Act v. Sc. 3.


 * What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was ’t betrayed the Capitol?—A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world?—A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years’ war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!
 * The Orphan (1680), Act iii. Sc. 1. Compare: "O woman, woman! when to ill thy mind/ Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend", Alexander Pope, Homer’s Odyssey, book xi., line 531.


 * Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
 * The Orphan (1680), Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Let us swear an eternal friendship", John Hookham Frere, The Rovers, act i. sc. 1.