There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
I have the knack of easing scruples.
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
How easy love makes fools of us.
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.