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.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

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

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.

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