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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘<strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the World’ (1700) act 2, sc. 4<br />

Witwoud: Madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters?<br />

Millamant: Only with those in verse, Mr Witwoud. I never pin up my hair with prose.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the World’ (1700) act 2, sc. 4<br />

Beauty is the lover’s gift.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the World’ (1700) act 2, sc. 4<br />

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the World’ (1700) act 3, sc. 5<br />

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the World’ (1700) act 4, sc. 1<br />

Don’t let us be familiar or fond, nor kiss before folks, like my Lady Fadler and Sir Francis: nor<br />

go to Hyde-Park together the first Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers, and<br />

then never be seen there together again; as if we were proud <strong>of</strong> one another the first week, and<br />

ashamed <strong>of</strong> one another ever after...Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as<br />

if we had been married a great while, and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the World’ (1700) act 4, sc. 5<br />

<strong>The</strong>se articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle<br />

into a wife.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the World’ (1700) act 4, sc. 5<br />

I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration <strong>of</strong> nuptials.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Way <strong>of</strong> the World’ (1700) act 4, sc. 12<br />

Careless she is with artful care,<br />

Affecting to seem unaffected.<br />

‘Amoret’ (1704)<br />

Music alone with sudden charms can bind<br />

<strong>The</strong> wand’ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.<br />

‘Hymn to Harmony’<br />

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Mourning Bride’ (1697) act 1, sc. 1<br />

Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Mourning Bride’ (1697) act 3, sc. 8<br />

Is he then dead?<br />

What, dead at last, quite, quite for ever dead!<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Mourning Bride’ (1697) act 5, sc. 11<br />

Would I were free from this restraint,<br />

Or else had hopes to win her;<br />

Would she could make <strong>of</strong> me a saint,<br />

Or I <strong>of</strong> her a sinner.<br />

‘Pious Selinda Goes to Prayers’ (song)<br />

For ’tis some virtue, virtue to commend.

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