(102 quotes found)
“We only part to meet again.”
John Gay
“But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.”
“Shadow owes its birth to light.”
“We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass that still points to thee.”
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
“An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.”
“When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction”
“'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.”
“To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman”
“How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.”