There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

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

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.