The Country Wife Flashcards
A pox on them, and all that force nature, and would be still
What she forbids them. Affectation is her greatest monster.
Me thinks wit is more necessary than beauty, and I think no young woman ugly
That has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it
Tis my maxim: he’s a fool that marries, but he is a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
What is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
Indeed, as the world goes, I wonder there are
No more jealous, since wives are so neglected
That sweet, soft, gentle, tame, noble
Creature woman, made for man’s companion
The spaniel is the more faithful
Animal, and fawns but upon one master
Your women of honour, so you call them, are only chary of their
Reputations, not their persons and tis scandal they would avoid, not me
I love to have rivals in a wife; they make her
Seem to a man still but kept as a mistress
Honour: men lose their lives by it; women what’s
Dear to them, their love, the life of life
They fear the eye of the
World more than the eye of heaven
Women and fortune are truest
Still to those that trust them
With as much trouble as
If I had made you one
A mistress should be like a little country retreat,
Not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night
I advise my friends to
Keep rather than marry
Do not be like the naughty town
Women who hate their husbands
