"The Beggars Opera" Quotes

We may be happy; if we will, / At once resolve, and be so still.

How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away!

I must now to Newgate, but I'll find a time to make you amends.

If the heart of a man is deprest with cares, / The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.

The modes of women's dress are so many, that the female world may be said to be nothing but a heap of shreds and remnants.

I have known the time when a young, handsome, blooming wench, that is, in a modest way, virtuous too, might starve, for not having a friend at court to take her by the hand.

I'll undertake to secure you a hundred pounds, if you will give me the means.

Innocence, child, is a great help to a man.

I am of the opinion that money cannot be better thrown away than in purchasing pleasure.

You are an insolent woman and a prostitute.