We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen..

Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been..

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering.

Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adul….

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear..

Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid c….

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it..

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world ….

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted..

Tell troth and shame the devil..

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example..

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads..

I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind..

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike..

A good king is a public servant..

Nothing is more short-lived than pride..

A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the….

Force works on servile natures, not the free..

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!.

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet..

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity..