'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

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.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

Those who know the least obey the best.