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.

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

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

Who pleases one against his will.