“What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all.”
To the Royal Academicians; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Famous John Wolcot Quotes
“Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.”
Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“People may have too much of a good thing:
Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.”
Subjects for Painters, The Gentleman and his Wife; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 617.
“A fellow in a market town,
Most musical, cried razors up and down.”
Farewell Odes, Ode iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold
The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.”
To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
