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.”

Cyril Tourneur

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

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