The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.