I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

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

Deference and intimacy live far apart.