Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.