George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham: Thought

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham was English statesman and poet. Explore interesting quotes on thought.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham: 40   quotes 1   like

“Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus, Montaigne, Seneca's Tragedies, Horace, Juvenal, Claudian, Pliny, Plutarch's lives, and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.”

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

Bayes, Act I, sc. i
The Rehearsal (1671)

Men , Books , Business

“Make my breast
Transparent as pure crystal, that the world,
Jealous of me, may see the foulest thought
My heart holds.”

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

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

World , Heart

“We might well call this short Mock-play of ours
A Posie made of Weeds instead of Flowers;
Yet such have been presented to your noses,
And there are such, I fear, who thought 'em Roses.”

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

Prologue
The Rehearsal (1671)

Fear , Flowers