O see me no more,— for thou wert born amongst Rocks, suckl’d by Whales, cradled in a Tempest, and whistled to by the Winds; and thou art come forth with Fins and Scales, and three Rows of Teeth, a most outragious Fish of Prey.

William Congreve, Love for Love

Valentine: …I lov’d a Woman, and lov’d her so long, that I found out a strange thing: I found out what a Woman was good for.
Tattle: Ay, prithee, what’s that?
Valentine: Why, to keep a Secret.
Tattle: O Lord!
Valentine: O exceeding good to keep a Secret: For tho’ she should tell, yet she is not to be believ’d.

William Congreve, Love for Love

Besides, you are a Woman, you must never speak what you think: Your Words must contradict your Thoughts; but your Actions must contradict your Words.

William Congreve, Love for Love

Well, if he be but as great a Sea-Beast, as she is a Land-Monster, we shall have a most amphibious Breed —

William Congreve, Love for Love

A loaf of bread and a clean collar; what does man want more?

Sherlock Holmes

Fondlewife: Come, Sir, who are you, in the first place? And what are you?
Bellmour: A Whore-master.
Fondlewife: Very Concise.

Congreve, The Old Batchelor

There ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

Sherlock Holmes

Words come later. It is the scent that first speaks of love.

Worf

The little frost-work which Titmouse had thrown around his heart, began to melt like snow under sunbeams.

Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year