» O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
» An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
» Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
» But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
» I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
» Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
» Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
» Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
» What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
» But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.