Cyril Tourneur Quotes

Cyril Tourneur was an English soldier, diplomat and dramatist who wrote The Atheist's Tragedy ; another play, The Revenger's Tragedy , formerly believed to be by him, is now more generally attributed to Thomas Middleton. Wikipedia  

✵ 1575 – 28. February 1626
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Cyril Tourneur Quotes

“A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em,
To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.”

The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), Act III. Sc. 1. Compare: "Distilled damnation", Robert Hall (in Gregory's Life of Hall).

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