There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

I was struck all on a heap.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.