Courtship is to marriage as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Author: William Congreve

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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Marriage is indeed a manoeuvring business.