Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by George Lillo

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English playwright George Lillo.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

George Lillo was an English playwright and tragedian. He was also a jeweller in London. He produced his first stage work, Silvia, or The Country Burial, in 1730, and a year later his most famous play, The London Merchant. He wrote at least six more plays before his death in 1739, including The Christian Hero (1735), Fatal Curiosity (1737) and Marina (1738).

English - Playwright | February 3, 1691 - September 4, 1739

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The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

George Lillo

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

George Lillo

Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

George Lillo

What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?

George Lillo

When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.

George Lillo

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

George Lillo

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by George Lillo

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