The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

Civility cost nothing.