The Man of Mode (1676)

• Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
  • Act I

• When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
  • Act II, sc. ii

• Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
  • Act IV, sc. i

• I know all beyond High Park's a desert to you.
  • Act V, sc. ii
  • Often misquoted as "Beyond Hyde Park all is a desert".