“Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!”
“Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.”
“I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.”
“No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.”
“O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.”
“Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.”
“Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?”
“Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?”
“How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.”
“We only part to meet again.”
“Shadow owes its birth to light.”
“The brave love mercy, and delight to save.”
“An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.”
“Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.”
“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”
“There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.”
“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.”
“But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.”
“Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.”
“Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.”
“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.”
“Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.”
“A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is fee d, Sir, he steals your whole estate.”