Richard Savage

Title page of Life of Mr Richard Savage

Richard Savage (c. 1697 – August 1, 1743) was an English poet.

Quotes

• Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear!
  Oaths are of dreadful Weight—and, if they're false,
  Draw down Damnation.
  • Sir Thomas Overbury (1724), Act II, scene i.

• When Anger rushes, unrestrain'd, to Action,
  Like a hot Steed, it stumbles in its way!
  The Man of Thought wounds deepest, and strikes safely.
  • Sir Thomas Overbury (1724), Act II, scene i.

• He lives to build, not boast, a generous race;
  No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
  • The Bastard (1728), line 7, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
  And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
  • Character of Foster, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame", Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, line 158.