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

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

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.

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

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

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