If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

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

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

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

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.