Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Southerne
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish dramatist Thomas Southerne.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.
There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.
Pity is akin to love.
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.
Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
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