1671-1757, British Actor-Manager, Playwright
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Colley Cibber – [Absence]
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber – [Jokes and Jokers]
Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and adore thee.
Colley Cibber – [Tea]
Thou strange piece of wild nature!
Colley Cibber – [Eccentricity]
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
Colley Cibber – [Fashion]