5 Quotes by Hannah Cowley

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

But what is woman? - only one of Nature's more agreeable blunders