Philip Massinger Quotes

To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

Being somebody: it's one of the ideas in life, no? That's what my father made clear to me. The importance of being somebody. He wanted to be somebody. And he underlined to me the fate of trying to be somebody and not quite managing to do it.

I don't need to be famous. I'm not that ambitious. At this point, if I'm not sucked in, I'm never going to get sucked in. Being the so-called hot girl, I disconnect from that. It's not that deep.

I have this amazing life.

I don't consider my life to be boring at all. I consider my life to be massively fortunate.

I'm still doing what I've always wanted to do, and how big it gets or how much money I make for it or how popular I am in the public's eye is really not that important, even though it's hard to let that go.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.

I don't know anybody who thinks they have it all... I count myself extremely lucky to have a fantastic family and the career I always wanted.

No one should ever feel sorry for me. I've been treated very well for the most part.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

Somewhere among every man's ancestors is a prince or a lord, a priest or a saint, and don't forget it. Wake up! Inherit the wealth of your ancestors!.. Stop living like a mouse, live like the rich people do.

I see a David West score 47, and yeah, it'd be cool to put up numbers like that. But I don't need that to make me happy.

I love the life I've had.

I don't care about fame. Problems everywhere.

I feel very privileged to do what I do.

I'm really grateful for the opportunities I get. But I do spend a lot of time thinking about how lucky I am so I don't become complacent about it.

Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.

A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.