For I must go where lazy Peace
Will hide her drowsy head;
And, for the sport of kings, increase
The number of the dead.
William Davenant quote Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
William Davenant quote Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other.
William Davenant quote Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
William Davenant quote Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
William Davenant quote Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.
William Davenant quote Biography
Lived 1606 - 1668
