The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is…

Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil. Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation.

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.

No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

He laughs best who laughs last.