You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.- William Congreve
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
This well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
No, I am no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
