Colley Cibber > Quotes

“The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.”
― Colley Cibber

“Thou strange piece of wild nature!”
― Colley Cibber

“Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity,
I owe the happiest moments of my life,
let me fall prostrate.”
― Colley Cibber, The Lady's Last Stake, or the Wife's Resentment. a Comedy. as It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Crow-Street, by His Majesty's Servants.

“Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!”
― Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant

“Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you."

[Love's Last Shift]”
― Colley Cibber, The Plays of Colley Cibber

“Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.”
― Colley Cibber