"The Country Wife" Quotes
A philandering man pretends to be impotent in order to seduce women, while his virtuous wife outsmarts him in this Restoration comedy of manners.
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Quotes
Marriage is a dull thing, but it has been made a pleasant institution.
A woman of quality is not to be approached with a pertness.
Inconstancy is the common right of women; and so they are never in the wrong, though they are never constant.
Virtue's a name, vice is a profession.
Grief for the dead is the only generous sorrow.
I find a good appetite is a more certain symptom of health than a good complexion.
She that has wit, and never had a heart, has given no proof of the power of her wit but that she has wanted heart.
Modesty and fear are two things; the one never feels, the other never shows.
There is no such thing as friendship in love.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
