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

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.