George Villiers, II duca di Buckingham: Frasi in inglese
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
"To His Mistress", cited from The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (London: T. Evans, 1770) vol. 2, p. 138.
Contesto: She that would raise a noble love must find
Ways to beget a passion for her mind;
She must be that which she to the world would seem,
For all true love is grounded on esteem:
Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart
Than all the crooked subtleties of art.
“The world's a wood, in which all lose their way,
Though by a different path each goes astray.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
"A Satyr upon the Follies of the Men of the Age", line 109; cited from The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (London: T. Evans, 1770) vol. 2, p. 156
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Bayes, Act I, sc. i
The Rehearsal (1671)
“O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions — Time!”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Last recorded words, as quoted in The Encyclopædia Britannica (1910)
“Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby "An Essay on Poetry", line 2; cited from The Poetical Works of the Most Noble John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (Edinburg [sic]: Apollo Press, 1780) p. 281. <br class="br">Misattributed in Temple Bar (February 1863) p. 377, and by Giga Quotes http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/george_villiers_a001.htm. <br class="br">Misattributed
“I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare;
And all this I can do, because I dare.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Drawcansir, Act IV, sc. I
The Rehearsal (1671)
“Ay, now the Plot thickens very much upon us.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Bayes, Act III, sc. iv
The Rehearsal (1671)
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Beaumont and Fletcher Philaster, Act III, sc. ii, line 144.
These lines are used almost unaltered ("holds" becoming "does hold") in Act III, sc. ii of Buckingham's The Restauration, an adaptation of Philaster. They appear with an attribution to Buckingham in many 19th century collections of quotations, e.g. Henry George Bohn A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets (1867) p. 63, and hence also on several quotation websites.
Misattributed
“The blackest Ink of Fate, sure, was my Lot,
And, when she writ my Name, she made a blot.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Pretty-man, Act III, sc. iv
The Rehearsal (1671)
“There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold togather.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Often misquoted as "How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together".
Origine: Commonplace book, P. 221
“A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Bayes, Act IV, sc, i
The Rehearsal (1671)
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Physician, Act II, sc. i
The Rehearsal (1671)
“What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Bayes, Act III, sc. i
The Rehearsal (1671)
“The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
"Letter to Mr. Clifford, on his Human Reason"; cited from The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (London: T. Evans, 1770) vol. 2, p. 105.
Variant (modernized spelling): The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcilable foes to truth.
“Methinks, I see the wanton houres flee,
And as they passe, turne back and laugh at me.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
As quoted in The Encyclopædia Britannica (1910)
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
Gilbert Burnet History of His Own Time (London: William S. Orr, 1850)
