John Tobin Quotes

John Tobin Quotes

John Tobin was a British playwright, who was for most of his life unsuccessful, but in the year of his death made a hit with The Honey Moon. Other plays were The Curfew and The School for Authors. Wikipedia

✵ 28. January 1770 – 7. December 1804

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The Honey Moon

John Tobin

The Honey Moon

John Tobin

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“The man that lays his hand upon a woman,
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch
Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.”

John Tobin The Honey Moon

The Honeymoon (1805), Act ii. Sc. 1.

“She's adorned
Amply that in her husband’s eye looks lovely,—
The truest mirror that an honest wife
Can see her beauty in.”

John Tobin The Honey Moon

The Honeymoon (1805), Act iii. Sc. 4.

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