“I’d challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you’re unarmed.”

~ William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“You want my children? Take them! I have the instrument to make more.”

~ Caterina Sforza when blackmailed by kidnappers using her children as leverage (main source: Niccolo Machiavelli)

“We fulfill the demands of nature in a much better way than do you Roman women; for we consort openly with the best men, whereas you let yourselves be debauched in secret by the vilest.”

~ Earliest recorded words of a Scot, third century AD (never change, Scotland).