“As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.”
Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, Act II (1696).
Love's Last Shift, or The Fool in Fashion is an English Restoration comedy by Colley Cibber from 1696.
“As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.”
Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, Act II (1696).
Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, Act IV (1696). Compare: "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd", William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III, scene viii (often paraphrased: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned").
“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, Act II, sc. i (1696).