If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

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.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

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.

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'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

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.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.