To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that …

- Dorothy Osborne

Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

- Dorothy Osborne

What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they canno…

- Dorothy Osborne

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

- Dorothy Osborne

I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortun…

- Dorothy Osborne

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

- Dorothy Osborne

Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never …

- Dorothy Osborne

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

- Dorothy Osborne

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

- Dorothy Osborne