Stolen sweets are best.

COLLEY CIBBER, The Rival Fools

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

COLLEY CIBBER, The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure: A Comedy

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

COLLEY CIBBER, attributed, Encyclopædia of Quotations

Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

COLLEY CIBBER, The Lady's Last Stake

One had as good be out of the world, as out of fashion.

COLLEY CIBBER, Love's Last Shift