Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.