Colley Cibber

“Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”

“Thou strange piece of wild nature!”

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

“You know, 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!”

“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.”