Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

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

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

It's always fun watching new actors and new voices come out.

I dont like Miami that much. I dont like the weather. My base is Miami, but I travel a lot.

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.