You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
William CongreveA wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
William CongreveBut say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
William Congreve