Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

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 ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.