O, she is the antidote to desire..

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth..

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond..

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind..

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure..

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you..

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life bec….

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear..

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views..

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing..

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections..

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure..

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play..

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd..

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words..

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak..

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait….

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom..

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull..

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved..