For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one. – William Wycherley
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. – William Wycherley
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. – William Wycherley
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. – William Wycherley
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle