Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Susanna Centlivre

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet Susanna Centlivre.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Susanna Centlivre, born Susanna Freeman and also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century". Centlivre's "pieces continued to be acted after the theatre managers had forgotten most of her contemporaries." During a long career at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she became known as the second woman of the English stage, after Aphra Behn.

English - Poet | 1667 - December 1, 1723

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Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

Susanna Centlivre

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

Susanna Centlivre

Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

Susanna Centlivre

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

Susanna Centlivre

TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.

Susanna Centlivre

my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

Susanna Centlivre

Want is the mistress of invention

Susanna Centlivre

I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.

Susanna Centlivre

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

Susanna Centlivre

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

Susanna Centlivre

A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.