There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.
If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.