Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
A little scorn is alluring.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.