 I'm thinking, Pierre, how that damned starving quality Called Honesty got footing in the world. Pierr. Why, powerful Villainy first set it up, For its own ease and safety: honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten...  Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Page 149by Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 860 pages
...footing in the world. Pierr. Why, powerful villainy first set it up, For its own ease and safety : honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten. Were all mankind villains, They 'd starve each other ; lawyers would want practice, Cut-throats rewards;... | |
 | David Harrison Stevens - 1923 - 938 pages
...footing in the world. PIERRE. Why, pow'rful villainy first set it up, 125 For its own ease and safety : umpet in a tragedy is generally as much as to say, Enter king; which make Were all mankind villains, They'd starve each other; lawyers would want practice, Cutrthroats rewards:... | |
 | Harold F. Rubinstein - 1928 - 1138 pages
...footing in the world. PIERR. : Why, powerful Villainy first set it up, For its own ease and safety : and, I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand), you'll own I have been pret : were all mankind villains, They'd starve each other ; lawyers would want practice, Cut-throats rewards... | |
 | 1898 - 1002 pages
...to recite something. Quin accordingly spoke a speech from Otway which contained the lines— llonest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten, which lines he delivered with so unmistakable an application to Allen and Warburton that he was never... | |
 | Shattuck - 1997 - 420 pages
...footing in the world. - — 'Pier. Why. powerful villainy first set it up, For its own ease and safety : Honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten. Were all mankind villains, They 'd starve each other; lawyers would want Cut-throats rewards ; each... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...Honesty A few honest men are better than numbers. Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) lord protector of England Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. Thomas Otway (1652-1685) English dramatist It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940), US author. The CrackUp, "Notebook E," cd. by Edmund Wilson (1945). 5 is the concentration camp. . . . THOMAS OTWAY (1 652-85), English dramatist. Pierre, in Venice Preserved, act 1 , sc. 1 6 Though I am... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...Star," Songs and Sonnets (1633). Repr. in Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. lohn Hayward (1929). 3 Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten. THOMAS OTWAY, (1652-1685) British dramatist. Pierre, in Venice Preserved, act 1, sc. 1 (1682). Repr.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1864 - 612 pages
...wellsimulated hesitation, Quin delivered passages from Venice Preserved; and in reciting the lines, " Honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten," looked so pointedly at " honest men" to Allen, and at " knaves" to Warburton, that the company were... | |
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