Quotes by John Wilmot

“I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.””

“God bless our good and gracious King,Whose promise none relies on;Who never said a foolish thing,Nor ever did a wise one.””

“This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumbAs ever was candle, carrot, or thumb;Then away with these nasty devices, and showHow you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo.””

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

“After Death nothing is, and nothing, death,The utmost limit of a gasp of breath.Let the ambitious zealot lay asideHis hopes of heaven, whose faith is but his pride;Let slavish souls lay by their fearNor be concerned which way nor whereAfter this life they shall be hurled.Dead, we become the lumber of the world,And to that mass of matter shall be sweptWhere things destroyed with things unborn are kept.Devouring time swallows us whole.Impartial death confounds body and soul.For Hell and the foul fiend that rulesGod's everlasting fiery jails(Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,Are senseless stories, idle tales,Dreams, whimseys, and no more.””

“All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.””

“A kind of losing loadum is their game,Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.””

“The entire piece has been devised with the French in mind. In France, fornication in the streets with total strangers is *compulsory*.””

“Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,May drink and love still reign,With wine I wash away my cares,And then to cunt again.””

“Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense””

“For Hell and the foul fiend that rulesGod's everlasting fiery jails(Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,Are senseless stories, idle tales,Dreams, whimseys, and no more.””

“How blest was the created stateOf man and woman, ere they fell,Compared to our unhappy fate:We need not fear another hell.””