Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.