George Etherege

I know all beyond High Park's a desert to you.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.