It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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 who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.