Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.