Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 1677 Death: April 29, 1707
The shortest pleasures are the sweetest..
A good husband makes a good wife at any time..
No woman can be a beauty without a fortune..
Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst..
I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do..
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another..
Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman..
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony..
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..
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player..
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 ….
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake..
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant..
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..