George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - Thought Quotes

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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

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

My legs, the emblem of my various thought,
Show to what sad distraction I am brought.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham