Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

Who pleases one against his will.

She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand