Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.
The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.
Those who know the least obey the best.
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.