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

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.