Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet

Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (c. 1615 – 26 January 1674, in Somerset House, London) was an English officer in the Royalist army during the English Civil War and a notable playwright.

Quotes

The Adventures of Five Hours (1663)

• He is a fool who thinks by force or skill
  To turn the current of a woman's will.
  • act 5, sc. 3, l. 483

• A fop? In this brave, licentious age
  To bring his musty morals on the stage?
  Rhime us to reason? and our lives redress
  In metre, as Druids did the savages.
  • act 5

• Friendship's an empty name, made to deceive
  Those whose good nature tempts them to believe:
  There's no such thing on earth; the best that we
  Can hope for here is faint neutrality.

• He ought not to pretend to friendship's name,
  Who reckons not himself and friend the same.

• Happiness is a stranger to mankind,
  And, like to a forc'd motion, it is ever
  Strongest at the beginning; then languishing
  With time, grows weary of our company.

• He, who the rules of temperance neglects,
  From a good cause may produce vile effects.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet on Wikipedia