At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

In hell there is no retention.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.