Thomas Otway

“To be a fool's a curse, we all agree; And yet to be too wise, is misery.”

“What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman!”

“Trust not a man; we are by nature false, dissembling, subtle, cruel and inconstant.”

“Honesty's a damned starving quality.”

“Friendship's an empty name, made to deceive those whose good-nature is too easy.”

“Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.”

“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee to temper man: we had been brutes without you.”

“Angels are painted fair, to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven.”

“Sure I've passed the worst of my revolving fate.”