Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 1677 Death: April 29, 1707
One may like the love and despise the lover..
Money is the sinews of love, as of war..
Necessity, the mother of invention..
'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that..
Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini..
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty..
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir..
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in g….
False love is only blinder..
I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do..
Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman..
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another..
Those who know the least obey the best..
Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase..
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards..
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony..
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant..
Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's….
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake..
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which ….
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player..