Who said “Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have…”?

“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.”

“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”

“Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.”

“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.”

“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.”