Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate

Perish the thought!

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I...

Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they’re ended

You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

Dumb’s a sly dog.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

This business will never hold water.

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you.”[Love’s Last Shift]

Off with his head – so much for Buckingham.

The happy have whole days,and those they choose.The unhappy have but hours,and those they lose.

Stolen sweets are best

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

and those they lose.

Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,sage and venerable liquid …to whose glorious insipidity,I owe the happiest moments of my life,let me fall prostrate.

Conscience avaunt, Richard’s himself again.