“A weak invention of the enemy.”
Colley Cibber Richard III
Act V, scene 3. Similar thought in William Shakespeare, King Richard III.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
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“This business will never hold water.”
She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, Act IV (1703).
“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”
Xerxes, Act IV, sc. iii (1699).
“Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!”
The Double Gallant, Act I, sc. ii (1707).
“The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome
Outlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.”
Colley Cibber Richard III
Act III, scene 1. Similar thought by Sir Thomas Browne.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
“As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.”
Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, Act II (1696).
Colley Cibber Richard III
Act V, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
“Possession is eleven points in the law.”
Woman's Wit, Act I (1697).
Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, Act IV (1696). Compare: "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd", William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III, scene viii (often paraphrased: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned").
“Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.”
Colley Cibber Richard III
Act III, scene 1.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
The Careless Husband (1704), Act ii, scene 2.
Colley Cibber Richard III
Act II, scene 1.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
“And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.”
Colley Cibber Richard III
Act V, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, Act II, sc. i (1696).
“With clink of hammers closing rivets up.”
Colley Cibber Richard III
Act V, scene 3. Similar thought in William Shakespeare, King Henry V.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
“Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,
And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.”
A parody on Pope's lines: "Graced as thou art with all the power of words, / So known, so honoured at the House of Lords"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Losers must have leave to speak.”
Act I.
The Rival Fools (1709)
“Off with his head—; so much for Buckingham.”
Colley Cibber Richard III
Act IV, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
Colley Cibber Richard III
Act IV, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)
The Lady's Last Stake (1707), Act I, sc. i.
“Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they're ended.”
The Double Gallant, prologue (1707).
