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.
Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.
I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men.
Women are like tricks by light of hand,Which, to admire, we should not understand.
Women are like tricks by light of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.