Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch – the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

— John Wilmot

John Wilmot Quotes

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

— John Wilmot

Man differs more from man than man from beast.

— John Wilmot

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man’s own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

— John Wilmot

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

— John Wilmot

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch – the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

— John Wilmot

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

— John Wilmot

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

— John Wilmot

Angels listen when she speaks; She’s my delight, all mankind’s wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

— John Wilmot

Love’s chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

— John Wilmot

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

— John Wilmot

Custom does often reason overrule.

— John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just: There’s something generous in mere lust.

— John Wilmot

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

— John Wilmot

I’d be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

— John Wilmot

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

— John Wilmot

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

— John Wilmot

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

— John Wilmot

All men would be cowards if they could.

— John Wilmot

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

— John Wilmot

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense.

— John Wilmot
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