People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.