Quotes from Susanna Centlivre

A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

Lying is a thriving vocation.

Mrs Lovely, A fortune of thirty thousand pound" – cast of characters

Woman: I never mind the outside of a man. Colonel: And I'm afraid thou art no judge of the inside. Sir Philip: I am positively of your mind, sir, for creatures of her function seldom penetrate beyond the pocket. Woman (aside): Creatures of your composition have, indeed, more in their pockets than in their heads.

Sure no woman's condition ever equalled mine: foppery, folly, avarice and hypocrisy are by turns my constant companions, and I must vary shapes as often as a player

Why, sir, she is to bear me a son, who shall restore the art of embalming and the old Roman manner of burying their dead; and for the benefit of posterity, he is to discover the longitude, so long sought for in vain.

Want, the mistress of invention.

All policies allowed in war and love.

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.