Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

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

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.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.