Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

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.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.