To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatnes….

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange..

All men would be cowards if they could..

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence..

Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder..

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy m….

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life..

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational..

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it..

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories..

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one..

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater..

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoi….

For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the ….

Man differs more from man than man from beast.

Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit..

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind..

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world th….

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat..

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality..

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust..