Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

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."

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.