Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.