An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
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Easy writings curse is hard reading.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
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He is the very pineapple of politeness!
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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
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Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
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You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
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