A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.