I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
A little scorn is alluring.
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
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."