A Bold Stroke for a Wife Quotes

“SIR PHILIP
I would recommend this gentleman to her for ahusband, sir - a person whom I have picked out from the whole race of mankind.
OBADIAH PRIM.
I would advise thee to shuffle him again with the rest of mankind, for I like him not.”
― Susanna Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife

“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.”
― Susanna Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife

“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”
― Susanna Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife

“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.”
― Susanna Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife

“Mrs Lovely, A fortune of thirty thousand pound" – cast of characters”
― Susanna Centlivre, A a bold stroke for a wife. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatres Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Written by Mrs. Susanna Cent-Livre.