"Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent The base Injustice thou hast done my Love: Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress, And all those Ills which thou so long hast mourn'd; Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd."

"Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as with living Souls, have been inform'd, By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound. What then am I? Am I more senseless grown Than Trees, or Flint? O force of constant Woe! 'Tis not in Harmony to calm my Griefs. Anselmo sleeps, and is at Peace; last Night The silent Tomb receiv'd the good Old King; He and his Sorrows now are safely lodg'd Within its cold, but hospitable Bosom. Why am not I at Peace?"

"'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman."

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

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

"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where."

"O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell."

"I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar."

"Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude."

"I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper."

"Thou liar of the first magnitude."

"And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!"

"Now will I, in my old way, discover the whole and real truth of the matter to him, that he may not suspect one word on’t."

"Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools."

"Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom."

"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."

"Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive."

"Eternity was in that moment."

"If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable."