George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Quotes

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Methinks, I see the wanton houres flee,
And as they passe, turne back and laugh at me.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
All these threatening storms, which, like impregnate Clouds, hover o'er our heads, will (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
The world's a wood, in which all lose their way,
Though by a different path each goes astray.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold togather.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
My legs, the emblem of my various thought,
Show to what sad distraction I am brought.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions — Time!

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
The world is made up for the most part of fools and knaves, both irreconcilable foes to truth.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
We might well call this short Mock-play of ours
A Posie made of Weeds instead of Flowers;
Yet such have been presented to your noses,
And there are such, I fear, who thought 'em Roses.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare;
And all this I can do, because I dare.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
She that would raise a noble love must find
Ways to beget a passion for her mind;
She must be that which she to the world would seem,
For all true love is grounded on esteem:
Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart
Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Ay, now the plot thickens very much upon us.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
The blackest Ink of Fate, sure, was my Lot,
And, when she writ my Name, she made a blot.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy,
And with their Comoedies they make us cry.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus, Montaigne, Seneca's Tragedies, Horace, Juvenal, Claudian, Pliny, Plutarch's lives, and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham