Thou liar of the first magnitude. |
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task. |
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task. |
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named. |
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. |
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. |
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. |
Well, Sir Joseph, you have such a winning way with you. |
Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fit That impudence and malice pass for wit. |
Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour. |
Wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet-heart and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar. |
Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond |
Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond |
Women are like tricks by light of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand. |
Wou'd I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Wou'd she cou'd make me a saint, Or I of her a sinner |