“A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.”
Source: Commonplace book, P. 268
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Famous George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Quotes
Bayes, Act I, sc. i
The Rehearsal (1671)
“There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold togather.”
Often misquoted as "How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together".
Source: Commonplace book, P. 221
“A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.”
Bayes, Act IV, sc, i
The Rehearsal (1671)
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Quotes about the world
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 world's a wood, in which all lose their way,
Though by a different path each goes astray.”
"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
"To His Mistress", cited from The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (London: T. Evans, 1770) vol. 2, p. 138.
Context: 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 is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.”
"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.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Quotes
“O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions — Time!”
Last recorded words, as quoted in The Encyclopædia Britannica (1910)
“Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
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.
Misattributed in Temple Bar (February 1863) p. 377, and by Giga Quotes http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/george_villiers_a001.htm.
Misattributed
“I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare;
And all this I can do, because I dare.”
Drawcansir, Act IV, sc. I
The Rehearsal (1671)
“The blackest Ink of Fate, sure, was my Lot,
And, when she writ my Name, she made a blot.”
Pretty-man, Act III, sc. iv
The Rehearsal (1671)
“Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy,
And with their Comoedies they make us cry.”
Prologue
The Rehearsal (1671)
“What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?”
Bayes, Act III, sc. i
The Rehearsal (1671)
“Methinks, I see the wanton houres flee,
And as they passe, turne back and laugh at me.”
As quoted in The Encyclopædia Britannica (1910)
Gilbert Burnet History of His Own Time (London: William S. Orr, 1850)
